340 TRAVELS IN 
feparated from Stellenbofch and Drakenftein, on the eaft, by the 
Little Salt River^ Deep River, and Moflel Bank River, being 
about eighty miles from north to fouth, and twenty-five from 
eaft to weft ; containing,, therefore, about two thoufand fquare 
miles. The Cape peninfula is about thirty miles in length and 
eight in breadth, or two hundred and forty fquare miles. Ac- 
cording to an account of his ftock, produce, and land under cul- 
tivation, which every man is obliged annually to give in to the 
police officers, and which is called the Opgaaff lift, it appears 
that, notwithftanding the comparative fhort diftance of every 
part of the Cape diftridt from a market, not one fifteenth part, 
of the furface is under any kind of tillage. 
Cape Town is built with great regularity, the ftreets being 
all laid out with a line. The houfes are generally white-waflied, 
and the doors and windows painted green ; are moftly two 
ftories in height, flat-roofed, with an ornament in the centre of 
the front, or a kind of pediment ; a raifed platform before the 
door with a feat at each end. It confifts of 1145 dwelling- 
houfes, inhabited by about five thoufand five hundred whites 
and people of colour, and ten thoufand blacks. The firft clafs 
is compofed of thofe who fill the feveral departments of Govern- 
ment, the clergy, the members of the Court of Juftice, and of 
the Police. The next are a fort of gentry who, having eftates 
in the country, retail the produce of them through their flaves ; 
then comes a number of petty dealers, who call themfelves mer- 
chants, and, laftly, the tradefmen, who carry on their feveral 
profeffions through their blacks. Many of the people of colour 
are fifhermen. 
Befides 
