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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope

a more or less expensive method of living in what may truly be calld a profusion in proportion to the price you give  besides this there is hardly an expence in the Place  Coaches are seldom or never usd but may be hird at the rate of 6 Rx or 1lb 4s. a day  Horses are at 6s. a day but the Countrey is not tempting enough to induce any one often to make use of them  Publick entertainments there are none nor were there any private ones owing to the measles which broke out about the time of our arrival  at other times I was told that there were & that strangers were always welcome to them if of any rank

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At the farther end of the high street is the Companies garden which is near 2/3 of an English mile in lengh  the whole is divided by walks intersecting each other at right angles planted with Oaks which are clippd into wall hedges  except in the Center walk where they are sufferd to grow to their size  this walk therefore at all times of the
 

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