A grazing, agricultural, and cotton-growing country.
Comprising descriptions of this well-endowed Colony from the year 1575 to the present time
With a map of the colony and engraving
with an appendix, and a vocabulary of the Natal or Zulu language
24, 146 pages, folding coloured map as frontispiece, 4 tinted lithographic plates, maps, brown cloth boards with gilt title and blind tooling on the upper cover, light foxing, rebacked, a very good copy.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography vol. 1 page 336: The author was a staunch believer in the virtue of colonisation as a means of lessening suffering and poverty, and he states that he " promoted emigration to Algoa Bay " many years before he saw the country, and later on, when he visited it, was able to report that in every case but one the settlers had done well. He also visited Natal, and considered it even more favourable than the Cape Colony for emigrants, and he bought farms, formed a Land Company, and settled there with his family. There is a short description of the country, with information of every description for the use of the colonists, together with articles, contributed by various writers, calculated to throw light on subjects of interest respecting the colony. The work is illustrated with lithographic views, and contains a map compiled from sketches by Dr. Stanger, with a " condensed government report of productions of Natal," in the margin.
Published by Effingham Wilson, Hatchard & Son, Trelawny Saunders,
- Overall Condition: A very good copy
- Size: 8vo (230 x140mm)
