3iS TRAVELS IN 
Lord Macartney's government, sent home to the Secretary of 
State, for the disposal of his Majesty. 
The quantity of Coustantia wine exported in four succes- 
sive years was. 
Years. 
Half Aums. 
Value. 
In 
1799 
157 
11,752 
1800 
188 
14,070 
1801 
173 
13,007 
1802 
210 
15,745 
In four 
years 
728 
54,504 R.D. 
The best bodied wine, that is made at the Cape, is the 
Madeira, considerable quantities of which were usually sent 
to Holland and to the Dutch settlements in India. The 
Americans, also, have taken small quantities, of late years, 
in exchange for staves, a trade that seems susceptible of very 
considerable augmentation. The English merchants at the 
Cape have made up cargoes of the different sorts of wines, 
both to the East and the West Indies, and they have been 
tried in the northern nations of Europe. But they uni- 
versally complain that the wines seldom agree with the 
samples, and that they frequently turn sour; so little regard 
for reputation have the Koopmen of the Cape. Confined to 
this spot from their birth, they have had little opportunity of 
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