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Befides the caftle and the forts, the other public buildings are, 
a large well-built barrack for 2000 men ; a quadrangular build- 
ing, with an area in the centre, where the Government flaves 
are lodged to the number of four hundred nearly; the Re- 
formed Church, which is a fpacious and neat ftrudure ; the 
Lutheran Church ; the town-houfe ; the Court of Juftice ; and 
a theatre. 
Towards the northern extremity of the diftrid, in that part 
of it which is called Zwartland^ there is a fmall church with a 
very neat and comfortable parfonage-houfe, garden, vineyard, 
and corn-land, but no village near it. 
The produce of the Cape peninfula is grapes, with all the 
European and many of the tropical fruits, vegetables of every 
defcription, barley for the ufe of horfes, and a fmall quantity of 
choice wine. Of the other parts of the Cape diftrid, wheat, 
barley, pulfe, and wine. 
By a regulation of the Dutch Government, every houfeholder 
was obliged annually to give in the number of his family, the 
amount of his live ftock, and the produce of his farm. As this 
had been done in a loofe and flovenly manner, and as the aug- 
mentation of ten thoufand fouls rendered it important to afcer- 
tain the means afforded by the colony for their fubfiftence. Lord 
Macartney required that, for the future, every man fhould give 
in his ftatement upon oath. When this new regulation was 
made, the Opgaaff^ for that year, had already been taken in the 
ufual way, but, on being repeated, the numbers, in fome articles, 
were 
