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of that elegant map, and the profound knowledge of the Colonial Journalist, inhabited 
by the Dutch to the furthest extent of the boundary of the Colony. Before a writer 
comes forward to instruct the public, he should first instruct himself. 
The public, who in general know nothing of the arts employed by this Quarterly Re- 
viewer, will be amused at some of his petty, but in his line, important, tricks. As it was 
impossible to persuade the public that the author of the ' Hints' had not had very advan- 
tageous opportunities of knowing much more about that part of the world than himself, it 
was necessary, to answer his views, that they must be told that " we (that is, one presuming 
individual,) are only surprised that, under such circumstances, his book should contain so 
scanty a portion of actual information," and that " the settlement which he recommends 
lies behind the Sneuberg, on or about the Sea Cow river. To this point, and farther, 
the colony may one day advance, but certainly will never begin there. Mr. Burchell 
might as well talk of planting a settlement behind tlie Himalaya mountains," (p. 209.) 
A writer whose pen is guided by honorable motives and a rigid adherence to truth, is in 
no danger of contradicting himself. But this reviewer has betrayed himself: he says, 
the colony may one day advance to that point, but will never begin there. That work 
which he quotes so respectfully (Barrow's Travels) coincides surprisingly with his de- 
scriptions. The reviewer, and that writer, appear to have been at the Cape exactly 
at the same time ; and it is remarkable that they are perhaps the only persons now in this 
country who, at that period, saw the wreck of the Hercules. (Quarterly Review, p. 246. 
— Bar. Trav., p. 197.224.) 
Thus much, this honest and impartial Quarterly : but the true statement is, that Mr. 
Burchell I'ecommended the Zuureveld, or part of the district of Albany, as the mos^ eligible 
spot for commencing the new colony (p. 20. and 21.) : and at page 28. his words are : " At 
the present moment, the occupation of the Zuureveld appears by much the most likely 
plan for affording, at the least expense, a comfortable situation for emigrants." At 
page 37. he proceeds to state, that " the number of emigrants which the district already 
described would accommodate, is not indefinite : nor of this can any proper estimate be 
formed, before the first party have located themselves, and a general survey of the country 
have been taken. If it should then be found that more land were wanting, aiid that the 
Caffres "were not inclined to part with theirs, the view must be dii'ected to other quarters ; and 
the country lying northward of the north-easternmost part of the Cape Colony, presents 
itself as decidedly the most eligible of all the unoccupied territory that adjoins the 
northern boundary." The writer then describes that country more fully than the other 
disti'icts recommended, because it had never before him been traversed by any European ; 
and this he supposes to be the " scanty portion of actual information" which so displeases 
the honest reviewer. Now, this man well knew, if not through any other medium, certainly 
through the pamphlet on which he was passing his opinion, that the dibtrict of Albany was 
the spot proposed by Mr. Burchell, and that the other was a secondary consideration, in 
case " the CalFres were not inclined to part with theirs :" but his love of honor and 
impartiality obliged him to omit that which would have proved the utility of the Hints, 
and to notice only that which might give a color to his assertion, that they " could be of 
no use." 
In moral turpitude, there is no difference between making a wilful misrepresentation, 
and uttering ' the thing which is not.' To the latter class belongs this writer's bare- 
faced assertion at page 206., respecting " gross mistakes and exaggerated statements,'' 
as far as it is intended to be applied to the ' Hints' : and also his words at page 209., 
relative to Saldanhabay, " and this description, which is altogether unintelligible, is copied 
