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ferved, fubfift in the country around and even 
in the midft of them t5 this very day ? 
However this may be; the diftrid: of tht 
Twerity-four-Rivers is at prefent, as I have al- 
ready faidj the moft agfeeabld part of the 
Dutch colonics at the Cape ; for not only is 
grain of every fp^cies, as well as pulfe, culti- 
vated there, but the inhabitants apply alfo t6 
the cultufe of fruits ; and this kind of com- 
merce is the more lucrative to them, as, being 
almoft the only perfons who carry it on, thejr 
have little to fear from competition. The 
fruits which they fend to the town for fale afe 
principally lemons, oranges, limes, fliaddocks, 
figs and pomegranates. They often tranfport 
thither waggon-loads at a time ; and whatever 
be the quantity, fo great is the number of pur^- 
chafcrs, that it is boiight up almoft imme- 
diately. The price of thefe fruits is general- 
ly from four to fix rix-dollars per hundred 
weight. There is a kind of orange, however, 
called at the Cape naretjes^ which, notwith- 
ftanding the fmallnefs of its fize, is fold at k 
higher rate. The naret/e^ diftinguifhed like the 
citron by a protuberance at the upper end, i& 
