a^o TRAVELS IN 
The quantity of Conftantia wine exported in four fucceffivc 
years was, 
Years. 
Half Aums. 
Value. 
In 
1799 
ii»752 
1800 
188 
14,070 
180I 
13,007 
I 802 
210 
15.745 
In four 
years 
728 
54,504 R.D. 
The beft bodied wine, that is made at the Cape, is the Ma- 
deira, confiderable quantities of which were ufually fent to 
Holland and to the Dutch fettlements in India. The Americans, 
alfo, have taken fmall quantities, of late years, in exchange for 
ftaves, a trade that feems fufceptible of very confiderable aug- 
mentation. The Engliih merchants at the Cape have made up 
cargoes of the different forts of wines,, both to the Eaft and the 
Weft Indies, and they have been tried in the northern nations 
of Europe. But they univerfally complain that the wines fel- 
dom agree with the famples, and that they frequently turn four ; 
fo little regard for reputation have the Koopmen of the Cape. 
Confined to this fpot from their birth, they have had. Kttle op- 
portunity of improvement from education and none from travel, 
and are confequently ignorant of the nature of foreign trade. 
If their wines are once on board fhip, they conclude there is an 
end of the tranfadion, and, if previoufly fold, whether they ar- 
rive in good or bad condition, is no concern of theirs. 
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