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VO'YAGJE OF THE POTOMAC. 
[December, 
district is estimated at sixty-four thousand two hundred and fifty- 
two. In June, 1829, eighteen whales were killed in Algoa Bay, 
the value of which was estimated at near four thousand pounds 
sterling; and, in the year 1830, fifteen were taken of propor- 
tionate value. 
The appearance of the district of Albany is highly pleasing, 
and is romantically diversified by gentle undulations, by precipi- 
tous woody ravines or kloofs, by stupendous ports or passes 
through the mountains, and by clumps of elegant evergreens ; 
while the whole face of the country, with slight exceptions, is 
adorned by a covering of verdant pasturage, and the soil is gen- 
erally of an excellent quality. It is bounded on the east by the 
Great Fish river, on the south by the Southern Ocean ; it is sixty- 
six miles in extent, and from thirty to forty-six in breadth ; pro- 
ducing wheat, barley, oats, Indian corn, potatoes, peas, beans, 
and lentils. The animals, in 1829, amounted to one thousand 
seven himdred and ninety horses, three thousand and seventy 
horned cattle, sixty-seven thousand four hundred cape sheep, ten 
thousand Spanish. sheep, and fourteen thousand nine hundred and 
fifty goats. In no part of .the colony have the inhabitants mani- 
fested more zeal in the estabhshment of schools, than in this dis- 
trict. This laudable spirit is not only manifest in the establish- 
ment of common schools for the children of the settlers, of Sun- 
day schools for the indigent, and an academy for the higher 
branches ; but -its benevolence extends to the improvement of the 
intellectual condition of the Caifres — the poor, degraded, and long- 
misrepresented Hottentot. The missionaries have laboured in- 
cessantly to improve the moral degradation and horrid barbarity 
of these savages, and the result has been found most encouraging. 
vSchools have been established among them, and the number of 
children of the CafFres now under instruction, amounts to more 
than six hundred; and it is said, but for the want of teachers, 
the number might have been greatly increased. They are taught 
in the Caffre and English languages, and many of them speak the 
latter with, considerable fluency. 
The exports of this district for the year 1830, in hides, horns, 
sheep-skins, tallow, butter, soap, gums, ivory, ostrich feathers, and 
salted beef and pork, arnounted to about one hundred and fifty 
thousand dollars ; which, for the number of inhabitants in a set 
