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TRAVELS IN 
The following table ftiews the number of marriages, chriften- 
ings, and burials in Cape Town for eight years. 
Years. 
Marriages. 
Chrillenings. 
Burials. 
1790 
130 
186 
1791 
97 
354 
146 
1792 
174 
360 
144 
1793 
158 
288 
I 16 
1794 
2 1 1 
308 
I I I 
1795 
213 
308 
145 
1796 
249 
257 
168 
1797 
217 
364 
157 
In 8 years 
1449 
2589 
II73 
Making 141 6 the excefs of chriftenings above burials in eight 
years. As all marriages muft be performed in Cape Town the 
column of marriages are thofe in the whole colony. By com- 
paring the average number of deaths with the population, it 
will appear that the mortality in the Cape diftridt is about 
2Jg-'V in tbe hundred. Of the flaves the mortality is rather 
more, but lefs, perhaps, than in any other country where 
llavery is tolerated. The number, as we have feen, in the Cape 
diftrict is 1 1.891 ; and the number of deaths, on an average of 
eight years, was 350, which is after the rate of three in the 
hundred. 
Capital crimes in the Cape diftrict are lefs frequent than they 
might be fuppofed among fuch a mixed multitude, M'here a great 
majority have no intereft in the public profperity or tranquillity. 
The 
