SOUTHERN AFRICA, 
5^ 
In the bed of the rivulet : 
Goal 
Feet. 
Blue soapy rock - - - 
5 
White soapy rock 
2.2 
Grey sand-stone with clay 
21 
Sand-stone of chocolate brown 
14 
Bluish soapy clay _ _ « 
31 
Striated sand, red and white, containing clay 
S3 
128 
Here the operation was discontinued for the present. 
Most of the European, and several of the tropical, fruits 
.have already been introduced into the colony, and cultivated 
with success. In every month of the year the table may be 
supplied with at least ten different sorts of fruit, green and 
dry. Oranges of two kinds, the common China and the small 
Mandarin ; figs, grapes, and guavas, are all very good ; peaches 
and apricots not bad. These, when in season, are sold at the 
rate of one shilling the hundred. Apples, pears, pomegranates, 
quinces, and medlars, thrive well and bear plentifully, but are 
not very good. Few indeed are at the pains even of grafting 
the trees, but suffer them to grow up from the seed. The 
plums and cherries that are produced in the colony are of an 
indifferent quality. Gooseberries and currants are said to 
have been tried, but without success. The nectarine has not 
yet been introduced. Raspberries are tolerably good, but 
scarce; and strawberries are brought to market every month 
of the year. There are no filberts nor common hazel nuts. 
