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have again vifited this bay ; and, having paid particular atten- 
tion to the furrounding country, and the ftate of the cattle, 1 
have no helitation in faying, that when once the dlfturbances 
between the boors and the KafFers are terminated, which in 
time of peace would eafily be effeded, large quantities of good 
fait beef might be cured there at a very moderate rate. The 
cattle that could conveniently be brought down from the valuable 
diftrids of the Snowy Mountains and Bruynjes Hoogte, would 
arrive at the bay in a very different condition from thofe that 
are driven from the fame diftrids to the Cape, acrofs a defolate 
and barren trad of country, fome hundred miles in extent, on 
which a blade of grafs is not produced. 
We procured, at Algoa Bay, as good beef, in every refped, 
as the markets of London fupply ; and, at the diftance of a few 
miles, there is an inexhauftible fund ©f ftrong bay fait. The 
fheep are alfo good of the kind, being the broad-tailed breed, 
fimilar to thofe of the upper regions of Afia, which, however, 
are inferior to any of ours, both in the weight of the carcafe, 
the flavour of the meat, and the quality of the wool. Corn 
might alfo be raifed, to any amount, in the lower diftrids of 
Graaf Reynet, bordering on the fea-coaft ; and fait butter, foap, 
and candles, procured on moderate terms. 
An eftablifhment at this bay for curing fait provifions would, 
no doubt, be a prodigious faving, as well as convenience, to the 
Eaft India Company. The produds of the coaft might eafily 
be tranfported to the Cape, in the fummer feafon, in fmall coaft- 
ing veffels, and depofited in their warehoufes there. The faving 
of: 
