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would be equally beneficial to the boor and the Hottentot, 
and prevent the many horrid murders that difgrace humanity. 
The next ftep to improvement would be to oblige all the 
Dutch landholders to enclofe their eftates, agreeably to the ori- 
ginal plans which are depofited in the Secretary's Office. By 
planting hedge rows and trees, the grounds would not only be 
better fheltered, but the additional quantity of moifture that 
would be attraded from the air, would prevent the furface from 
being fo much fcorched in the fummer months. The almond, 
as I have obferved, grows rapidly in the drieft and pooreft foils, 
and fo does the pomgranate, both of which would ferve for 
hedges. The lemon-tree, planted thick, makes a profitable as 
well as an extremely beautiful and excellent hedge, but it re- 
quires to be planted on ground that is rather moift. The keur-- 
boom or fophora capetifis grows in hard dry foils, as will alfo two 
or three of the larger kind of proteas. 
The vineyards, inftead of being pruned down to the ground, 
fo that the bunches of grapes frequently refl upon it, fhould be 
led up props or efpaliers, or trailed, as in Madeira, aL-ng the 
furface of lattice work. The ftrong Spaniih reed that grows 
abundantly in the colony is well fuited for this purpofe, which 
would not only free the grapes from the peculiar earthy tafte 
that is always communicated to the wine, but would caufe the 
fame extent of vineyard to produce more than double the quan- 
tity of grapes. A family or two from the ifland of Madeira, to 
inftrud them in the procefs of making wine, would be of eflen- 
tial ufe to the colony, 
A better 
