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government : for myfelf, I blame not the go- 
vernment, but the numerous abufes introdu-' 
ced, and continually increafed, by the inferior 
agents it is obliged to employ. Government, 
undoubtedly, wiihes for the profperity of its 
colonies; its own intereft muft naturally infpire 
that wifh ; but in vain will it make wife regu- 
lations ; in vain will it create numerous efta* 
blifhments, if thofe to whom it entrufts its 
powers employ them only to its own detriment 
and the detriment of the colonies. 
Without pretending to detail or examine 
thefe charges, which might be as imprudent as 
ufelefs a tafk, I fhall content myfelf with in- 
dulging a hope, that a town may be one day 
founded in the diftridl of the Twenty- four- 
Rivers. Situated in the moft fertile part of the 
colony, it would foon, from the pleafantnefs 
of its fituation and climate, furpafs the Cape it- 
felf ; and having the ready means of export- 
ation, the cultivation of lands would necefTarily 
increafe with the population of the country. 
Its grain and its fruits, as w^ell as the grain of 
a part of Swart-Land, might be conveyed in 
flat-bottomed boats by the Berg-rivier to the 
Bay of St, Helen 5 and it would be eafy to 
