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with at leaft ten different forts of fruit, green and dry. 
Oranges of two kinds, the common China and the fmall Man- 
darin, figs, grapes and guavas, are all very good ; peaches 
and apricots not bad. Thefe, when in feafon, are fold at the 
rate of one fhillingfor 100. Apples, pears, pomgranates, quinces 
and medlars, thrive well and bear plentifully, but are not very 
good. Few indeed are at the pains of grafting even the trees, 
but fuffer them to grow up from the feed. Plums and cherries 
that are produced in the colony are of an indifferent quality. 
Goofeberries and currants are faid to have been tried, but 
without fuccefs. The nedtarine has not yet been introduced. 
Rafberries are tolerably good, but fcarce : and ftrawberries are 
brought to market every month of the year. There are no 
filberts nor common hazel nuts, but almonds, walnuts and 
chefnuts, all of good quality, are plentiful, as are alfo mulber- 
ries of a large fize and excellent flavour. 
The market is likewife tolerably well fupplied with moft of 
the European vegetables for the table, from the farms that lie 
fcattered along the eaftern fide of the peninfula, in number 
about forty or fifty. On fome of thefe farms are vineyards alfo 
of confiderable extent, producing, befides the fupply of the 
market with green and ripe grapes and prepared raifins, about 
feven hundred leaguers or pipes of wine a-year, each contain- 
ing 154 gallons. Of thefe from fifty to a hundred confift of a 
fweet lufcious wine, well known in England by the name of 
Conftantia, the produce of two farms lying clofe under the 
mountains 
