TRAVELS IN 
C H A p. VI. 
Topographical Defcriptlon and Statiftical Sketch of the Cape 
Settlement. 
General Description. — Dimenfwns. — Extent. — Soil. — Climate.— Winds. — Scar^ 
city of Water. — Permanent Rivers enumerated and defcribed. — Mountains. — Divi- 
fions, Population^ and Produce, — Provincial Judicature. — District of the 
Cape — Extent of and ^lantity of Land under Cultivation. - Cape Toivn Stock, 
Produce, and Population afcertained by the OpgaafF. — Births and Mortality.—' 
Criminals. — Natural ProduEls of the Cape DiJlriSJ. — District of Stellen- 
BosCH AND Drakenstein — Extejit and Diviftons of. — The Drofdy or Village — 
Situation and Produce of the other Divifons of this DiflriB — Stock and Population 
of according to the Opgaaff. — District of Zv^ei^l.-ehhau — Dimefiftons, Ex- 
tent, and Divfwns of— the Drofdy or Village of — Situation and Produce of the other 
Diviftons — Stock and Population according to the Opgaaff. — District of Graaf 
Reynf.t — Dimenfwns, Extent, and Diviftons of —Drofdy or Village of —Situation 
and Produce of the other Diviftons of this DifriB — Stock and Population according 
to the Opgaafl". — Tenures of Lands. — Loan Farms, Nature and Number of . — 
Gratuity Lands. — ^dt Rents. — Freeholds. — Reafons againfi Lnprovement of Eflates 
in the Cape Property frequently chatiges i/ij«i^f.— Condition of the Inha- 
bitants. — Neceffaries of Life obtained without Exertion. — Four Claffes of Colonifls 
—Thofe of the Town, Condition of — Taxes and Affeffments moderate. — Tithes or 
Church Rates none — no Poor Rates, — Police conduEled by a College of Burghers — ■ 
their FunBions—NegkSl and Abifes of — Improvement fuggefled. — Indifference of 
the Ctlonifls for rational Amufements — The Wine Growers, Condition and Re- 
fources of— State of their Outgoings and Returns. — Eafy Terms of purchaftng Eflates. 
— Corn Boors, Condition of— State of their Outgoings and Returns. — Graziers, 
indolent and helplefs Condition of —their bad CharaEler—fubjetl to no Taxes — State 
