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Zwartland, confifts of a flat extended plain, very fertile in corn, 
grafs, and fruits, and being well watered, is more populous 
than moft parts of the colony. With a proper degree of labor 
and management in the culture of the land, by plantations and 
inclofures for fhelter, warmth, and moifture, that part of the 
colony alone which lies within the great range of mountains, 
would be fully fufficient to fupply with all the neceffaries of life 
the town and garrifon of the Cape, and all the fhipping that 
will probably ever frequent its ports. In the introdu6tory 
chapter, the probability was mentioned of the different foreign 
articles in the vegetable kingdom, of general confumption, that 
were moft likely to fucceed in this country. Since that was 
written, feveral of fuch articles have had a fair trial in the Bota- 
nic garden at the Cape, and many of them have fully anfwered 
the expectations that were formed. As food for cattle, four fpe- 
cies of millet have been tried of the genus Holcus^ namely, the 
Sorghum^ the Saccharatus^ the Spicatus^ and B'lcolor, All of thefe, 
except the fpicatus, have been cut dov^^n feveral times in the 
fame feafon, afterwards grew to the height of fix to ten feet, 
bore a plentiful crop of feed, fprung up afreih from the old 
ftumps in the v^rinter, furnifhing mod excellent food for cattle 
throughout the whole year. A fpecies of Indian Lucerne, the 
Medicago efculenta^ was twice cut dovv^n, and afterwards gave a 
plentiful crop of feed. A fmall kidnej bean, the Phafcolus 
lohatus^ grew very rapidly, producing two crops the fame feafon, 
and is an excellent fpecies of food for cattle, w^hether given to 
them green, or dried into hay, which is the cafe alfo with the 
lucerne. A ftrong tall dog's-tail-grafs, the Cynofiinis coracanus 
of India, ufeful both for man and beaft, was cut down twice, 
and 
