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promised to be navigable, (p. 24.); extending the colonial boundary to the Keisikamma, 
(p. 23.); forming the English settlers into a separate colony, (p. 19, 20.); making previous 
arrangements for their reception, (p. 30, 31.); not to disembark at Cape Town, but to 
proceed direct to Algoa Bay, (p. 31.); appointing a separate landdrost for the new dis- 
trict, (p. 32); the distribution of rations of provisions by Government (p, 32, 33.) for a 
limited time, on security of the land, (p. 35.); and sooner or later it will be found advisable 
to adopt many others. 
For those who have read this pamphlet, or are acquainted with the subject, it will be 
sufficient merely to recommend that review to their perusal, as the easiest means of con- 
vincing them of the illiberality and arrogance of its writer ; who, having already 
laid before the public his opinions on the Cape, is resolved to uphold his own 
writings by attacking every other publication which might appear to him as interfer- 
ing with them. There is one work, however, which he has spared — " Barrow's 
Travels ;" and which he appears so much to respect as a monument of correctness, 
that he bestows (p. 210.) commendations on one book merely because its writer states 
in his preface that he has freely availed himself of " the superior work of Mr. Barrow." 
This saved him from the reviewer's anger ; and there is little doubt that a complimentary 
remark on Mr. Barrow, which he found in the preface to the Rev. Mr. Latrobe's Journal, 
saved that gentleman also. But in the " Hints," alas ! no praises of that author are to 
be found,- therefore, "we do not see that his (Mr. Burchelfs) book can be of any use." 
Professor Lichtenstein has committed an offence which this reviewer will never forgive ; 
he has written a book of Travels in Southern Africa ; and in which he has rendered the 
public the service of pointing out the numerous errors and misrepresentations of Mr. 
Barrow's book. Hinc illcc lachryma; ; for this reason the reviewer penned that illiberal 
piece of misrepresentation, and abuse, to be found in the sixteenth number (vol. viii. 
p. 374.) Certainly, Lichtenstein's work contains three times as much ' actual information' 
respecting the Cape colony, as Barrow's ; and those who wish for such, will spend their 
time more profitably in reading the volumes of the former, than those of the latter author. 
The chief value of ' Barrow's Travels' did not consist in those indelicate de- 
scriptions, which render it a work unfit for general perusal, nor in those acrimonious 
aspersions which it contains on the general character of the Dutch natives, but in 
its statistical matter, and which any person holding the situation of ' auditor of 
accounts' in that colony might have written without great study or pretensions. At the 
date of its publication, it might have been a useful book, but since that time the statistics 
and circumstances of the colony have changed so much, that at present it can only serve 
to mislead those who consult it for such information. Of this, a multitude of instances 
might be pointed out in various publications which have been compiled from it. An 
anonymous writer in the ' Colonial Journal,' (1st Oct. 1819, as quoted in the ' Globe' 
newspaper of the 7th.) asserts that the settlement pnoposed by Mr. Burchell " on the 
banks of the Sea Cow river," " cannot be approached but through a region which the 
Dutch have been obliged to abandon, on account of the hostilities of the exasperated 
Bosjesmans." In this there is a trifling absurdity ; for, the new district being stated in 
the ' Hints' to ' adjoin the northern boundary' of the Cape colony, where is the inter- 
mediate region through which it is to be approached ? But the fact probably is, that this 
writer, who evidently knows little of the subject he writes upon, has relied upon the scraps 
of information displayed upon Mr. Barrow's map, where the words, " This northern 
part of the Colony has been deserted by the Dutch on account of the attacks of the Bos- 
jesmans Hottentots," have misled him : that part is, notwithstanding the high authority 
