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TRAVELS IN 
Stock and Produce. 
Horses - - 9,049 
Horned cattle • - - - - 52,376 
Sheep ----- 154,992 
Leggers of wine made - _ - 220| 
Muids of wheat reaped in 1797 - - 16,720 
of barley 7 
n k - - - 10,554 
— or rye J 
DISTRICT OF GEAAF REYNET. 
The district of Graaf Reynet extends to the eastern ex- 
tremity of the colony. The Great Fish River, the Tarka, the 
Bambosberg, and the Zuureberg, divide them from the Kaf- 
fers on the east ; the Camtoos River, the Gamka or Lions' 
River, and Nieuwveld Mountains, from the districts of Zwel- 
lendam and Stellenbosch on the west; Plettenberg's Land- 
mark, the Great Table Mountain, and the Karreeberg, from 
the Bosjesman Hottentots on the north ; and it is terminated 
by the sea-coast on the south. The mean length and breadth 
of this district may be about 350 by l60 miles, making an 
area of 40,000 square miles, which is peopled by about 700 
families ; consequently each family may command 57 square 
miles of ground, which is more than six times the quantity 
regulated by Government. Great part, however, has been 
occasionally abandoned on account of incursions made both 
by the Kaffers and Bosjesmans. The inhabitants, indeed^ 
are a sort of Nomades, and would long before this have pene* 
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