Feb.] cape TOWN TO BEAUFORT. 
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enough to reach the island. After showing the 
boy how to fasten it round his body, they threw 
it over, which happily reaching the island, lie 
seized and tied it round him as directed. Then 
at their desire, advancing as far as he could into 
the powerful stream, they dragged him over as 
fast as possible. The fate of the little dog I do 
not recollect. 
The Landdrost showed us a plan of the in- 
tended town of Beaufort, which is to consist of 
two parallel streets. Each house is to have a 
good piece of ground for a garden attached to it, 
and a stream of water, in a canal, is to be 
carried along each street for irrigating the gardens, 
and supplying the wants of the inhabitants. The 
spot chosen for the town is excellent meadow 
ground. 
. Beaufort has lately been erected into a parish,' 
and Mr. Taylor, who was sent out by the Mis- 
sionary Society to instruct the heathen, had been 
induced to accept a presentation to it from govern- 
ment. Mr. T. justified himself to a friend for 
having left the Missionary Society, by saying th'it 
he had got a parish larger than Yorkshire. His 
friend observed, " had you continued in the 
service of the Society, and gone a little farther up 
the country, you might have laboured in a parish 
as large as the island of Great Britain." The 
