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efteem manure is very evident from the heaps of dung piled up 
about the houfes in thofe places vvhere the cattle, in order to 
preferve them from beafts of prey, are pent up at nights. Thefe 
are circular or fquare fpaces, fhut in by dead branches of the 
thorny mimofa, and are called kraals^ a name which they have 
alfo thought proper to transfer to the colledled huts of the Hot- 
tentots or Kaffers. The beds of fome of thefe kraals were 
twelve feet deep of dung, unmixed with any other material ; 
and this is not the only nor the leaft offenfive nuifance with 
which the hovel of a Dutch peafant is ufually furrounded. 
The great fertility of the land in this part of the colony can 
be no inducement for the farmers to extend the cultivation of 
grain beyond the prefent limited quantity, as they can have no 
demand for their produce unlefs a coafting trade fhould be efta- 
blifhed. They would be very glad to find a market for their 
grain at a contract price of two fliillings and eight-pence for a 
Winchefter bufhel delivered at Zwart-kop's bay. The wheat of 
the Cape is a large full grain, weighing ufually from fixty-one 
to fixty-five pounds a bufhel. Since the capture of the Cape 
a fmall cargo was fent to Europe which fold in Mark-lane mar- 
ket at a higher price than the beft Englifh wheat that appeared 
on the fame day. 
The valley through which the Zwart-kop's river meanders 
in its courfe to the bay, is a fertile trad: of country, the greateft 
part of it capable of being laid under water. It is twenty miles 
in length and between two and three in width. The hills, that 
on each fide rife with an eafy flope, exhibit an unbroken foreft 
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