CONCLUSION. 
In bringing to a close this volume* descriptive 
of Southern Africa, we have but a few words 
to add to those already written. 
In a colonial and commercial point of view, 
it must be allowed, that this country is, and 
always has been, very much undervalued. Its 
resources have not been developed, its districts 
are but partially inhabited, and its soil is 
scarcely anywhere cultivated as it ought to be. 
Possessing a climate along its Southern shores, 
which is surpassed in its salubrity, by no part 
of the known world, it seems negligent, not to 
have availed ourselves more of it as a naval and 
military " sanatariurn" for our invalid officers 
and men, from the more unhealthy climes on 
our foreign stations, as well as a more enlarged 
destination for emigrants. Mismanagement and 
misrule, (which now most happily are being 
speedily remedied,) may hitherto have conduced 
to embolden the frontier tribes of the Cape Co- 
lony in revolt, and render property there inse- 
cure : but this, it is very sanguinely to be 
believed, as hoped, will be so no more, Whilst 
