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provifions, are in a difmal fituation ; for it 
often happens that the warehoufes have been 
fo much drained, that it is found neceflary to 
bring from the town in carts whatever thefe 
new comers are in want of : and the carriage 
of them generally cofts an exorbitant price. 
The hire of a paltry cart is from twenty to 
thirty dollars a day ; I have even know^ 
fifty paid for one ; and it is to be obferyed, 
that they can make only one journey in th^Q 
twenty-four hours. 
The fineft fifli are caught here, and parti- 
cularly the rooman^ that gives its name to a 
rock in the neighbourhood of which it Is 
found In great abundance. Oyfters alfo are 
fifhed up here, but they are exceedingly 
fcarce. 
I muft not omit to mention, that In the 
fields between the Bay of Falfo and the Cape 
Town, but efpecially in the environs of Con- 
ftantia and oiNiuwe4and^ is found that charm- 
ing tree, called Jilwer blaaderen *. It appears 
that, when Dr. Sparmann was at the Cape, this 
tree was not fo abundant as at prefent ; for the 
planters having remarked that it grew up very 
* The frotea argentea of the botanifts. 
faft. 
