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CHAPTER V. 
Cape of Good Hope — Progress of the Colony — Cape District — Districts of Stellen- 
bosch, Worcester, Swellendam, George, Uite'nhage, Albany,' Somerset, and Graaf 
Rainet — Population Table — Imports and Exports — Judiciary Establishment — Post- 
office — Humane and Religious Institutions — Revenue, Military, &c. — The Caffres 
— Captain Stout's Character of them — The Hottentots — Progress of Education 
among them. 
The British colonial establishment at the Cape of Good Hope 
is rapidly improving, and is miquestionably destined, at no very 
late period, to beconae of much importance to the mother countiy, 
and collaterally, to the commercial world. The settlements are 
rapidly extending towards the interior, there being no less than 
ten districts at this time composing the colony. 
The Cape District has been much extended of late, embracing 
the Residency of Simon's Town. The north point of the district 
extends to Verlone Valley, one hundred and ninety miles from 
Cape Point, but in no part does the district exceed thirty miles in 
breadth. This district is divided into eleven divisions, one 
of which is Constantia, so celebrated for its wines. There are 
no streams which serve for irrigation, and the crops depend al- 
most wholly on the periodical rains. In this district there are 
several fine turnpike-roads, the tolls on which, in the year 1830, 
amounted to 1863/., while the repairs during the same period 
amounted to 1400Z. In this district is Saldanha Bay, in 33° 8' 
south latitude, which is one of the finest in the whole colony, and 
will in time become the anchorage to the seat of justice for 
another district. Captain Morrell was in this bay in 1829, in the 
schooner Antarctic, and is quite full in his description. 
There are thirty thousand acres cultivated, seven hundred and 
forty thousand- waste, and two thousand acres planted with vines, 
giving two miUions six hundred and one thousand six hundred and 
fifty plants, yielding one thousand four hundred and sixty leaguers,* 
♦ A leaguer of wine is one hundred and fifty-two gallons 
