CONTENTS 
—American Trade. — Ships under neutral Flags and Brlti/Ij Capitals .•^Situation of 
Batavlan Republic refpeBhig the Cape. — -Interefts of the Eajl India Company. — 
Cape confidered as an Emporium of EaJIern Produce — C'yeSlons to It — attended with ■ 
Lofs to the Crown — and Injury to the London Market. — Rented'^. — Trade from the 
Cape — to the Wejl Indies — to the Braztts~at the Difretlon of the Company. — Ame- 
rica — Holland — France — Advantages of the Cape as furnifnng Exports — Grain 
and Pulfe — Wine and Brandy — Wool — Hides and Skins — Whale Oil and Bone 
dried Fruits— fait Provlfions — Soap and Candles — Aloes—Ivory — Tobacco. — Total 
■ Value of Exports In four Tears. — Imports from England what — from India and 
China — hy foreign Nations. —.Table of Imports .'^Balance of Imports over Exports.. 
— State of the Colony — Relapfe Into Poverty. -..-Commercial Advantages not Im- 
portant to Great Britaln-~confidered as a Depot j or the Southern IFh.ile Fifjery. — 
E/labliJJjment of this Flfjery — might be exclifively in our Hands through the Cape 
— Black Whale — Spermaceti. — Bounties. — Seal Fifery in the Elands of Americans 
-—Inducement for them to dlfpofe of their Skins. — Condi fion, - P-'ge 26 (j::. 
CHAP. vr. 
Topographical Defcriptlon and Statiftical Sketch of the Cape- 
Settlement. 
General Description. — Dlmenfons. — Extent. - SAL — C/itna/e. — Winds Scar- 
city of Water. — Permanent Rivers enumerated and defcrlhtd. — Mountains. — Dlvi- 
fionSf Population, and Produce. — Provincial Judicature. District of the 
Cape — Extent of and Quantity of Land under Cultivation. — Cape Town — Stocky 
Produce, and Population afcertained by the OpgaafF. — Births and Mortality.—' 
Criminals Natural ProduBi of the Cape DifrlEl. — District oe Stellen- 
BOSCH AND Drakenstein — Extent and Dlvifons of. — The Drofdy or Village — 
Situation and Produce of the other Dlvifons of this DlJlrlEl — Stock and Population 
ef according to ^/^^ Opgaaff. — District of ZwBhhENV am —Dimenfons, Ex- 
tent, and Dlvifons of —the Drofdy or Village of — Situation and Produce of the other 
Divftons — Stoik and Population according to the OpgaafF. — District ot Graaf 
Reynet — Dlmenfions, Extent, and Dlvifons of —Drofdy or Village of — Situation 
and Produce of the other Dlvifons of this DiJlrlB — Stock and Population according ' 
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