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557.
Some account of the Cape of Good Hope

day furnishes an agreable shade no doubt highly beneficial to the sick  as the Countrey is not by nature furnishd with the least degre of shade nor has nature given one tree to the soil capable of producing it at least within several miles round the town
[Margin note]  no Trees

infinitely the largest part of this Garden is employd in producing Cabbages  Carrots &c. Two small squares however are set apart for Botanical plants which are well taken care of & neatly kept   at the time we were there the greatest part of the plants  as the annuals  Bulbs &c. were under ground  upon the whole however I am of opinion that the numbers now to be found there will not amount to above half of what they were when Oldenland wrote his Catalogue  indeed at that time it is possible that more ground was imployd for the purpose

At the farther end of the Garden is

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