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sent to London as a remittance. The amount of this article 
entered on the Custom-house books, in the course of four 
years, was as follows : 
Years. 
Lbs. Weight. 
Value R. D. 
1799 
126,684 
9361 1 
1800 
71,843 
5217 0 
1801 
52,181 
4258 3 
1802 
91,219 
6829 0 
Total of 4 
years 
lbs. 341,927 
R.D. 25,665 4 
It is subject to a small exportation duty of sixteen-penoe 
for every hundred pounds. 
IVORY. 
However abundant this article might once have been in the 
southern part of Africa, it is now become very scarce, and, in 
the nature of things, as population is extended, the animals 
that furnish it, the Elephant and the Hippopotamus, must pro- 
gressively disappear. Indeed, at this moment, except in the 
forests of Sitsikamma and the thickets in the neighbourhood of 
the Sunday River, not any elephants are to be found within 
the limits of the colony. Of those few which the Kaffers 
destroy, the large tusks are always cut up into circular rings 
and worn on the arms as trophies of the chace. The small 
quantity of ivory that is brought to the Cape market is col- 
lected chiefly by two or three families of bastaard Hottentots 
