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are aloes and barilla, the plant that produces the firll growing 
in every part of the diftrid: that furrounds the bay, and that 
from the afhes of which the other is procured being equally 
abundant in the plain through which the Olifant River flows at 
no great diftance from the bay. Here too the cultivation of 
grain and pulfe might be greatly extended. 
If the introdudion of Chinefe were effeded, the markets of 
Cape Town and Saldanha Bay could not fail to be moft abun- 
dantly fupplied with wine, grain, pulfe, fruit, and vegetables; 
probably to fuch a degree as not to be excelled in the world, 
either for price, quality, or quantity. 
The confequence of fuch a fyftem of eftablifliing markets 
would be the immediate eredion of villages at thefe places. 
To each village might be allowed a church, with a clergyyman, 
who might adt at the fame time as village fchoolmafter. The 
farmers' children put out to board would contribute to the fpeedy 
enlargement of the villages. The farmers would thus be excited 
to a fort of emulation, by feeing the produce of each other com- 
pared together, and prices offered for them proportionate to 
their quality, inftead of their being delivered to the butcher, 
as they now are, good and bad together, at fo much per head. 
The good effeds produced by occafionally meeting in fociety 
would fpeedily be felt. The languor, the HftlelTnefs, and the 
heavy and vacant ftare, that charaderize the African peafant, 
would gradually wear off. The meeting together of the young 
people would promote the dance, the fong, and gambols on 
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