372 TRAVELS IN 
I. T\\Q Drofdy, or refidence of the Landroft, is a fmall vil- 
lage in the centre of the dillrid;, and rather more than 500 
miles from Cape I'own. It confifts in about a dozen mud- 
houfes covered with thatch. That of the Landroft is of the 
fame defcription, to which is annexed a garden and vineyard ; 
but the grapes here feldom come to perfedion, on account of 
the cold blafts from the Snowy Mountains, at the feet of which 
the village is fituated. The land is red Karroo, and uncom- 
monly fertile where the Sunday River can be brought to flood 
it. I obferved here feventy diftind: ftems from one fingle 
grain of corn. 
Under the idea of civilizing the rude boors of this diftrl£t, 
Lord Macartney made fuitable provifion for a clergyman, and 
the foundation was laid for a large church. Long, however, 
before the outer walls were built, they thought fit to expel the 
clergyman that had been fent down to them ; and the build- 
ing w^as only juft finifhed when the Englifh evacuated the 
place. 
2. Voor^ Middle^ and Agter Sneuwberg^ the fore, middle, and 
pofterior Snovv^y mountains may be confidered as the grand 
nurfery of fheep and horned cattle, particularly of the former. 
Of thefe many families are in poflefTion of flocks from two to 
five thoufand. Between the people of thefe divifions and the 
Bosjefman Hottentots there is a perpetual warfare, which is im- 
prudently fomented by the former making prifoners for life of 
the children they take from the latter. 
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