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Numberless instances of this kind occurred, yet the system 
remained the same. Perhaps, indeed, it would be difficult 
to suggest a better, till a greater degree of population shall 
compel the inhabitants to dwell in villages, or the limits of 
the colony be contracted into a narrower compass. 
This extensive settlement, whose dimensions have been 
given above, is divided into four districts, namely, 
1. The. district of the Cape. 
2. of Stellenbosch and Drakenstein. 
3. of Zwellendam. 
4. of Graalf Reyuet, 
CAPE DISTRICTo 
Of these the Cape district is by much the smallest, but the 
most populous. It may be considered as divided into two 
parts ; one consisting of the peninsula on which the Town is 
situated, the other of the slip of land extending from the shore 
of Table Bay to the mouth of the Berg River in Saint Helena 
Bay, and separated from Stellenbosch and Drakenstein, on the 
east, by the Little Salt River, Deep River, and Mossel Bank 
Kiver, being about eighty miles from north to south, and 
twenty-five from east to west ; containing, therefore, about two 
thousand square miles. The Cape peninsula is about thirty miles 
in leno-th and ei^ht in breadth, or two hundred and forty square 
miles. According to an account of the stock, produce, and 
land under cultivation, which every man is obliged annually 
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