382 
TRAVELS IN 
In the diftrid of the Cape - - 43 
■ Stellenbofch and Drakenftein - 46 
' Zwellendam. - - 18 
Total 1 07 
3. The quit-rents arife from pieces of wafte ground which, 
from their contiguity or convenience to an eftate, have been 
allowed by Government to be occupied by the owners of mch 
eftates upon a leafe of fifteen years, on condition of their pay- 
ing an annual rent of one (hilling an acre. Before the expiration 
of the leafe a prolongation of the term for another fifteen years 
is petitioned, and the renewal feems now to have become a mat- 
ter of courfe. Of fuch grants there are. 
In the Cape diftrid - - 25 
— — Stellenbofch and Drakenftein - 10 
Total 35 
4. Real eftates held in fee-fimple and fubjecft to no rent are 
chiefly fituated in the Cape diftriil or its vicinity. Thefe arc 
the choiceft patches of land, and have originally been fold or 
granted to the early fettlers in parcels of about 60 morgen, or 
120 Englifh acres. It is natural to fuppofe that lands held in 
fee-fimple fhould be in a higher ftate of improvement than thofe 
held 
