SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
Gram and Pulse 
Wine and Brandy 
Wool 
Hides and Skins 
Whale Oil and Bone 
Dried Fruits 
I shall take a short view 
paratelj. 
Salt Provisions 
Soap and Candles 
Aloes 
Ivory 
Tobacco- 
of each of these articles se* 
GRAIN AND PULSE. 
The wheat produced at the Cape is said to be as good and 
heavy as that of most other parts of the world. A load of this 
grain consists of ten 7nuids or sacks^ equal to 31 Winchester 
bushels : and a muid or S-^-V Winchester bushels, usually 
weighs 180 Dutch pounds, which is equal to IQl? pounds 
English. The returns are from 10 to 70, according to the 
nature of the soil, and the supply of water. Mr. Duckitt, 
the English farmer, informed me that he obtained seventy 
for one from a new sort of wheat, of a small hard grain, at 
the farm of Klapmutz, near the Cape, where the returns of 
the ordinary kind, sown under similar circumstances, were 
only eighteen and twenty. A small quantity of wheat only is 
raised on such farms as are within the distance of one day's 
journey from the Cape, the best part of the ground in those 
contiguous to the peninsula being chiefly employed in exten- 
sive vineyards ; and still less grain is cultivated beyond the 
distance of a three days' journey from the town, , where the 
inhabitants are all graziers. The quantity of grain»that might 
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