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niflilng. The mutton of the Cape fheep is alfo of* a very in- 
ferior quality, being coarfe and void of flavour ; and they have 
little inteftine or net fat, nor, indeed, any other except what is 
accumulated on the tall, which is of too oleaginous a nature to 
be employed alone as tallow. In every refpedt, therefore, the 
mixed Spanilli breed is preferable to that which, at prefent, 
conftitutes the numerous flocks of the greater part of the farmers. 
Hides and Skins. 
The exportation of thefe articles, both dried and falted raw, 
has been increafed to a very confiderable degree under the Bri- 
tifli Government, and the price has confequently augmented in 
proportion to the demand for them. Ox hides, which formerly 
might be purchafed at half a dollar a piece, rofe to two dollars. 
They are fubjedt, on exportation, to a duty of threepence-half- 
penny a piece. The quantity exported may amount to between 
2000 and 3000 annually. Thofe that are taken oiF the cattle, 
killed in the country, are employed by the farmers in various 
ufes, but principally as harnefs for their waggons, and as thongs 
to fupply the place of cordage. The fkins of fheep, that are 
killed in the country., are converted into fmall facks and other 
articles of houfehold ufe, and employed as clothing for the flaves 
and Hottentots, and are ftill worn by the farmers themfelves, 
after a rude kind of drefling, as pantaloons. In the Cape they 
are fomewhat better prepared, and are ufed for clothing of 
flaves, for gloves and other purpofes. Few of them are ex- 
ported. Skins of the wild antelopes and of the leopard 
are brought occafionally to the Cape market, but the quan- 
tity 
