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Some account of Batavia

place where a famous market calld Passar Tanabank is held, here & here only during my whole stay I had the satisfaction of mounting up a hill of about ten yards perpendicular hight & tolerably steep, 
[Margin note]  Hills
about 40 miles inland however, are some pretty high hills, where as we were informd the countrey is healthy in a high degree, & even at certain hights tolerably cool, there European vegetables flourish in high perfection, even strawberries which bear heat very ill, 
[Margin note]  pale
the people who live there also, have Colour in their cheeks, a thing totaly unknown at Batavia, where the milk white faces of all the inhabitants, are totaly unstaind with any Colour, especialy the women, who never go into the sun, & are consequently free from tann, & have certainly the whitest skins imaginable, From what cause it proceeds is difficult to say, but in general it is observ'd that they keep their health much better than the men, even those lately arrivd from Europe
 

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