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furnifh them with the means of fuitable education for their 
children. To open them new markets for their produce, and, 
by frequent intercourfe with one another, to make them feel 
the comforts and the conveniences of focial life. Whether the 
Dutch will be able to fucceed in doing this, or whether they will 
give themfelv.es the trouble of making the experiment, is doubt- 
ful, but fliould it once again become a Britifh fettlement, thefe 
or fimilar regulations would be well deferving the attention of 
Government. 
But, above all, the eftablifhment of a proper public fchool 
in the capital, with mafters from Europe qualitied to undertake 
the different departments of literature, demands the firft atten- 
tion of the Government, whether it be Dutch or Englifh. For 
as long as the fountain-head is fuffered to remain troubled and 
muddy, the attempt would be vain to purify the fcreams that 
ilTue from it. It is painful to fee fo great a number of pro- 
mifmg young men as are to be found in Cape Town, entirely 
ruined for want of a fuitable education. The mind of a boy 
of fourteen cannot be fuppofed to remain in a ftate of inadlivity, 
and if not employed in laying up a ftock of ufeful knowledge, 
the chances are it will imbibe a tafte for all the vices with 
which it Is furrounded, and of which the catajogue in this co- 
lony is by no means deficient. 
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