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too well provided for by Government to engage in fo laborious 
an employ. 
The amount of the funds belonging to the Reformed Church 
in Cape Town, in the year 1798, was, Rd. 110,842 i 2 or 
22,168/. 8/. 8^., and the fubfiftence granted to the poor was 
Rd. 5564 2 or 1 1 12 /. lyj-. The funds of the Lutheran Church 
were Rd. 74,148 2 2 or 14,829/. 13 x. id.^ and the relief granted 
to the poor Rd. 972 2 2 or 194/. gs. 2d. 
Improvements suggested. 
Before any confiderable degree of improvement can be ex- 
pe£ted in thofe parts of the country, not very diftant from the 
Cape, it will be necelTary, by fome means or other, to increafe 
the quantity and to reduce the prefent enormous price of la- 
bour. The moft effectual way, perhaps, of doing this, would 
be the introdudion of Chinefe. Were about ten thoufand of 
this induftrious race of men diftributed over the Cape diftrid, 
and thofe divifions of Stellenbofch and Drakenftein which lie 
on the Cape fide of the mountains, the face of the country 
would exhibit a very different appearance in the courfe of a few 
years; the markets would be better and more reafonably fupplied, 
and an abundance of furplus produce acquired for exportation. 
It is not here meant that thefe Chinefe fhould be placed under 
the farmers ; a fituation in which they might probably become, 
like the poor Hottentots, rather a load and an encumbrance on 
the 
