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vineyard does not perhaps produce the tenth 
part of the wine which Is fold under its 
name. At that time it belonged to Mr« 
Cloete. Some fay that the firft plants were 
brough thither from Burgundy, others from 
Madeira, and fome from Perfia. However 
this may be, it is certain that this wine is 
delicious when drank at the Cape ; that it 
lofes much by being tranfported; and that 
after five years it is worth nothing. On my 
arrival a demUhaaniy that is to fay, about 
twenty bottles, was fold from thirty-five to 
forty piaftres ; when I departed it was worth 
more than an hundred. 
Clofe to Conftantia is another vineyard, 
called the J-jcJer Conjiantia \ but it is only with- 
in thefe feven years that it has begun to be 
held in the fame efteem as the former. It has 
even fometlmes happened that the produce 
of it has been fold for a larger fum than that 
of the other, at the Company's fales. As it 
is feparated from the other only by a plain 
hedge, it is probable that there was formerly 
no difference betv/een the wines but in the 
manner of preparing them. 
All the fpace contained between the Bay 
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