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fold at the low price of 20 rix dollars, or four pounds currency, 
and mofi: of them for not a fourth part of this fum. For fuch a 
?jarbarous ad: the villagers, in fome countries, would have been 
apt to have hung both the Landroft and Hemraaden upon their 
branches. How far they were fufFered to proceed I cannot 
fay, but I faw at leaft half a hundred of thefe venerable ruins 
lying in the ftreets. 
The village is delightfully fituated at the feet of lofty moun- 
tains, on the banks of the Eerjle or Firft River, at the diftance 
of twenty- fix miles from Cape Town. In it is a fmall and 
neat church, to which is annexed a parfonage houfe with a good 
garden and very extenfive vineyard. The clergyman has a 
falaryfrom Government of 120/. a year, with this houfe, gar- 
den, and vineyard free of all rent and taxes, in lieu of other 
emoluments received by the clergy of Cape Town. The con- 
dition, therefore, of the country clergy is at leaft equal and per- 
haps preferable to that of thofe who refide in the town. Pro- 
vifions of every kind are much cheaper ; they have the advantage 
of keeping their own cattle ; fowing their own grain ; planting 
vineyards and making their own wine ; and, in a word, they 
pofTefs the means of raifing within themfelves almoft all the ne- 
cefTaries of life. In addition to thefe advantages, if the clergy- 
man fhould have the good fortune to be popular in his diftrid, 
which, however, is no eafy matter to accomplifli, he is fure to 
be loaden with prefents from day to day. Nothing, in fuch 
cafe, is thought too good for the minifter. Game of all kinds, 
fat Iambs, fruit, wine, and other good things of this life,'* 
are 
