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Station Sloop in his majesties service is every year more expensive than this ship where every rope & every sail  every rope yarn even is obligd to do its duty most thouroughly before it can be dismissd  how trifling then must this expence appear when in return for it the nation acquires experiencd seamen in those who execute it & the National Praise which is never denied to nations countries who in this publick spirited manner promote the increase of knowledge

at the Cape of Good Hope might be procurd Beef, Bread, Flower, Pease, Spirit, or indeed any kind of Provision at Reasonable Rates  the Beef must be bought alive & salted  for which purpose it would be proper to take out Salt from Europe  the General price which ideed never varies is two pence a pound  it is tolerable meat but not so fat as ours in England  Pork is scarce & dear  of that therefore a larger proportion might be taken out  Bread  which varies in price  is of the Rusk kind very good but rather brown Spirit is Arrack

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