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here, and eventually save us part of the great expense to 
which we go in importing beef. What has struck me in 
the Eland and others of the Antelope tribe as being some- 
what of a recommendation in the present state of our pas- 
tures, is that the animal acquires condition much more na- 
turally and without the rich stimulants required for the 
production of the best beef. The meat of the Eland is 
exceedingly good. The first killed in England weighed 
1176 lbs., with a much less proportion of bone than in the 
best-bred shorthorn. While on this question I would men- 
tion that it has been proposed to introduce the Secretary- 
bird, alluded to in my paper on Acclimatization before-cited,, 
into Martinique for the destruction of the snakes which in- 
fest that island ; and as both the bird and the antelope are 
inhabitants of the same country they might be introduced 
at the same time. 
Before leaving the subject of our colonial literature I 
ought not to pass without notice the Almanack produced 
for the first time for the year 1866. I do so, therefore, not 
with the object of pointing out the utility of that compi- 
lation and the great advance made by it on our annual 
literature of that kind, but to remark that it will serve a 
very useful purpose in our social economy if it merely draws 
attention to our position as indicated by the statistics therein 
given, which are now for the first time brought under the 
eyes of every colonist in a sufficiently comprehensive form. 
While some of the statistics, such as those of acreage and 
of exports and imports, show unmistakeable signs of in- 
creasing prosperity, there are others that are well calcula- 
ted to arouse our most serious misgivings as bearing upon 
social Science. In order to make the case more clear I 
shall supplement my present remarks by statistics drawn 
