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at the upper end of the town, clofe to the company's garden. 
It is an honour to that commercial body, and no fmall orna- 
ment to the town. The only objedtion that can be made to it 
as a building, is its fituation : had it been ereded on an 
eminence, and a little detached from the town, which might 
ealily have been done, no fault could have been found with 
it. As it is, the convalefcents have free accefs to the com- 
pany's gardens, where they reap the benefit of a wholefome 
pure air, perfumed with the exhalations of a great variety 
of rich fruit trees, aromatic fhrubs, and odorous plants and 
flowers ; and likewife have the ufe of every produdion of it, 
as before obferved ; advantages that compenfate, in a great 
meafure, for the flat fituation of the hofpital. 
The inhabitants are all exceedingly fond of gardens, 
which they keep in mofl: excellent order. The doing this 
is very little trouble to them, the climate and foil being- 
mod benign and friendly to vegetation. Among the many 
which afforded me delight, I muft not forget that belonging 
to Colonel Gordon, commander in chief of the Dutch 
troops at the Cape ; where not only the tafte and inge- 
nuity of the gardener, but the (kill and knowledge of the 
botanift, are at once manifeft. The colonel is a man of 
fcience, of an adlive and well-cultivated genius, and who 
appropriates 
