SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
of Outgoings and Revenues of Government -Nature of the thirteen 
Heads of and Table of their Amount for four fucceffive Tears. — Jurisprudence. 
— Nature and Conflitution of the Court - its Members. — Civil Caufes. — Attornies. 
~— Office of Fifcal. — Court of Commijfaries for petty Suits, and matrimonial Affairs. 
— The Weefhammer, or Chamber for managing the EffeBs of Minors and Orphans 
, — its FunElions. — Religion, that of the Reformed Church. — Lutherans and others 
barely tolerated. — Condition of the Clergy — Duties of—direB the Funds raifed for 
the Relief of the Poor — are Curators tf the public School. — Amount of Church 
J^wwfifr.— Improvements suggested, by the IntroduBion of Chincfe — ecfly 
effeBed by the Britifh Government — by Moravian EJlablifIjme?its of Hottentots in 
the dijlant Parts — by enclofmg the Farms - leading their Vines up Props or Efpaliers. 
—New Syjlem in the Tillage of Corn Lands. — EJlablifljment of Fairs or Markets, 
and ereBing of Villages — Confequeuccs of /Zi^/^. — Conclufion. 
General Description. 
J F from the fouthern point of the Cape peninfula, which, 
however, is not the fouthernmoft point of Africa, a ftraight 
Hne be drawn in the diredion of eaft by north, it will cut the 
mouth of the Great Fifh River, the Rio (TTnfante of the Portu- 
guefe, which is now confidered as the eaftern boundary of the 
colony. The length of this line is about five hundred and 
eighty miles. 
If from the fame point a ftraight line be drawn in the direc- 
tion of north, with a little inclination wefterly, it will fall in 
with the mouth of the River Koujfte, the northern boundary 
of the colony, at the diftance of about three hundred and fifteen 
miles. 
And, if from the mouth of the Great Fifh River a line, drawn 
in the diredion of north-north-weft, be continued to the diftance 
of, 
