DEDICATION.^ 
innumerable herds of the fineft cattle ; the 
lands during the feafon favourable to vege- 
tation are carpeted with flowers that per- 
fume the furrounding atmofphere, and their 
fliores are frequented by fifli of every quali- 
ty and defcription. 
Such natural bleflings lead us to contem- 
plate the happy confequences that muft ne- 
ceffarily arife, not only from the cultivation 
of fo fine a country, but the civilization of 
a race of mortals, whofe only crime is their 
colour^ and whofe misfortunes fmce the firft 
fettlement of chriftian Javages in their coun- 
try, no feeling heart can contemplate for a 
moment, without horror and compaffion. 
In Caffraria^ and throughout the greater 
parts of the fouthern continent, the climate 
and the foil feem to demand the cultivation: 
of the grape. In no country which has been 
yet difcovered, could a greater variety of 
of excellent wines be produced. The vine- 
yards of Conjiantia^ which are fituated near 
the Cape, and flourifh in a fterile foil, v/hen 
compared to tliofe of CafFraria^ elucidate this 
fad ; and the experiments w^hicli the farm- 
ers have been able to make in the more ad- 
vanced ftations of the colonies, leave 310 
room for controverfy on this fubjeft, ^ To- 
hacco has been raifed in the Dutch colonic^ 
by fuch of the farmers as could procure a 
plant : and although few were acquainted 
with the neceffary treatment, either in its 
growth or manufoclure, the produce im 
