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The chief articles of colonial growth and produce, confumed 
upon the fpot and exported to the Eaft Indies, Europe, and 
America, may be comprized under the following heads ; 
Grain and Pulfe 
Wine and Brandy 
Wool 
Hides and Skins 
Whale Oil and Bone 
Dried Fruits 
I fhall take a Ihort view of each of thefe articles feparately* 
Grain and Pulse. 
The wheat produced at the Cape is faid to as good and 
heavy as that of moft other parts of the world, A load of this 
grain confifts of ten muids or facks, equal to 3 1 Winchefter 
bufhels : and a muid, or 3^0 Winchefter bufliels, ufually 
weighs 180 Dutch pounds, which is equal to 19 1| pounds Eng- 
lilli. The returns are from 10 to 70, according to the nature 
of the foil, and the fupply of water. Mr. Duckitt, the Englifh 
farmer, informed me that he obtained feventy for one from a 
new fort of wheat, of a fmall hard grain, at the farm of Klap- 
mutz, near the Cape, where the returns of the ordinary kind, 
fown under fimilar circumftances, were only eighteen and 
twenty. A fmall quantity of wheat only is raifed on fuch farms 
as are wit'hin the diftance of one day's journey from the Cape, 
the beft part of the ground in thofe contiguous to the peninfula 
002 being 
Salt Provijions 
Soap and Candles 
Aloes 
Ivory 
Tobacco 
