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560.
Some account of the Cape of Good Hope

[Margin note]  Desart
days journey & told that he had better have left them with his next neighbour  "Neighbour said he  my nearest neighbour lives 5 days Journey from me

Nor does the Countrey immediately in the neighbourhood of the Cape give any reason to Contradict the idea of immence barrenness which must be formd from what I have said  the Countrey in general is either bare rock  shifting sand or grounds coverd with heath &c. like the Moors of Derbishire  Yorkshire &c. except the very banks of the few rivulets  where are a few plantations cheifly employd if well shelterd in raising Garden stuff & if rather less so in vineyards  but if expos'd nothing can stand the violence of the winds which blow here through the whole summer or dry season 
[Margin note]  Tree
during my whole stay I did not see a tree in its native soil so tall as myself  indeed Housekeepers complain of the Dearnes of
 

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