The Cape and the Colonists: with Hints to Settlers in 1848

by George Nicholson, Esq, Jun

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First edition

First Edition. With an engraved frontispiece of View of Capetown. vii, 219pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine rebacked. Mendelssohn III 543. Item #314155 The author spent a few years as a farmer in the district of Graaf-Reinet but not being able to make his occupation pay he returned to England . His account of the colony is rather gloomy but not altogether incorrect. -- Theal p. 214.

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