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551.
Some account of the Cape of Good Hope

his Salary furnishes him with  consequently not entering into trade he interferes with no man & not wishing to be bribd does always to the best of his abilities strict justice on all occasions

The Climate tho not at all too hot for those who come from India would doubtless appear sufficiently warm could any one be transported immediately from England to this place  upon the whole it seems much of the same temperature as the Island of Madera tho scarce quite so hot  this I judge from the productions in general  during the whole Summer the air is frequently fannd by SE winds which come off the hills above the town with vast violence & during the time of their blowing  especialy at the beginning  are very troublesome to such as are obligd to be abroad in them by raising the Sand with which the whole countrey abounds & filling their eyes with it  nor are the houses

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