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SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
sites of a traveller. The care and accuracy with 
which his observations are made } his attention to 
study man in his political and social capacities j 
and, at the same time, his intimate acquaintance 
with the different kingdoms of nature, enable him 
to exhibit a complete view of all the relations 
under which any region can be considered. He 
was assisted by all the means of information which 
government could supply ; so that, with regard 
to the tract over which he travelled, his informa- 
tion may be considered as superseding all prior 
narratives, and forming the basis of those which 
are to succeed. 
Mr Barrow begins by giving a view of the ex- 
tent of the colony, as fixed by official survey in 
the course of the journey which he narrates. The 
greatest length, from Cape Point to Kaffreland, 
is 580 miles ; its smallest length, from the river 
Koussie to Zuureberg, is 520. The greatest 
breadth, from the river Koussie to Cape Point, is 
315 miles ; its least breadth, from the Nieuweldt 
mountains to Plettenberg bay, is 160. These 
measurements give a medium length of 550 miles, 
and a medium breadth of 233. This immense 
tract is occupied, exclusive of Cape Town, by not 
more than 15,000 white inhabitants, so that each 
individual may be considered the proprietor of 
eight and a half square miles of ground. A very 
great portion of this space, however, seems doom- 
