Handwriting.

[These Exercises will be collected, when they are finished, by the presiding Examiner or Commissioner.]

Copy, in your best handwriting, the following passage:—

Dr. Fritsch, in his admirable work on the Ethnology of the Natives of South Africa, estimates the number of the Hottentots in the days of Van Riebeck at 150,000. Now, according to the recent census returns, there are in the Cape Colony 81,000; in Great Namaqualand about 15,000; and a few hundreds in Griqualands West and East.