56 TRAVELS IN " 
The establislmient of the Landrost is still more sumptuous. 
He has the enjoyment of a salary and emoluments that seldom 
fall short of 1500/. a year; a most excellent house to live in, 
pleasantly situated on a plain at the head of the village, before 
^vhich are a couple of venerable oaks, scarcely exceeded in 
England ; and an extensive garden and orchard, well planted 
with every kind of fruit, and a vineyard. 
Most of the grounds in or near the village are what 
they call Eigendoms or freeholds, though they are held by 
a small recognizance to Government, but they are totally 
different from loan-farms, which are the usual kind of tenure 
in the colony, and of Avhicli we shall have occasion to speak 
Jiereafter. 
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Jonkcrs lioeck, Bange Hoeck, KlaptnutZt 
.Bottelary's Gebergte, Saxcnberg's Gebergti, Eerste River, Hot- 
tentot's Holland, a,nd 3 foddergat, are small divisions surround- 
ing the drosdy, and lying between it and False Bay. They 
consist chiefly of freehold estates, and produce wine, brandy, 
fruit, fresh butter, poultry, and a variety of articles for the Cape 
market, and for the supply of shipping whilst they continue to 
lie in Simon's Bay. They yield, also, a small quantity of corn, 
but this article without manure, or a better system of tillage, 
is scarcely worth the labour of cultivating so near the Cape, 
where they can employ the land to better advantage. The 
best farm at Klapmutz was granted in loan to Mr. Duckett, 
the English agriculturist, for the purpose of making his expcr 
ments, for the instruction of the African boors. 
