SOUTHERN AFRICA. 3^5 
their wine to market is from September to the new vintage in 
March, but generally in the four concluding months of the year, 
after which their draught oxen are fent away either to their own 
farms or others in the country till they are again wanted. The 
deep fandy roads over the Cape ifthmus require fourteen or 
fixteen oxen to draw two leggers of wine, whofe weight is not 
2f tons. 
The tax upon their produce is confined to that part of it 
which is brought to the Cape market, and is at the rate of three 
rix dollars for every legger of wine, and the fame fum for every 
legger of brandy that pafTes the barrier. All that is confumed 
at home, or fold in the country, is free of duty. Neither are 
they fubjedl to any parochial taxes or afTefTments, except a fmall 
capitation tax towards the repair of the ftreets and avenues 
leading to the town, and the Lion and 'Tyger money for the exi- 
gences of the diftrid. They are equally exempt, with the peo- 
ple of the town, from church and poor rates ; the former being 
liberally provided for by Government, and the other defcription 
of people not being known in the country diftrids. The wine- 
farmers take their pleafure to Cape Town, or make frequent 
exurfions into the country, in their tent waggons drawn by a 
team of fix or eight horfes ; an equipage, from which the boor 
derives a vaft confequence over his neighbour, who may onljr 
polfefs a waggon drawn by oxen. 
The following rough fketch, which was given to me by one 
of the moft refpedable v^ine boors, of his outgoings and returns, 
wUl ferve to fhew the condition of this clafs of colonifts. 
3 E 2 Outgoings^ 
