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quantity of wines and brandy that passed the barrier, and 
which, of course, includes the consumption of the town, of 
the army, and navy^ as well as the exportation in four suc- 
cessive 3'cars. 
Years. 
Leggers of 
Wine. 
Leggers of 
Brandy. 
1799 
1800 
1801 
1802 
69531 
5199| 
5463f 
40311 
598f 
4721 
320t 
2731 
In four years 
21,6491 
16651 
Of the above quantity have been exported from 400 to 
800 leggers of wine, and from 30 to 100 of brandy, annually, 
beside the Constantia ; the rest has been consumed in the 
town. So that the whole export value of wines, including 
the Constantia, and the brandy, may amount, one year with 
another, to about 50,000 rixdollars, or 10,000/. currency. 
The gradual reduction of the quantity brought up to town, 
as appears in the table, is no proof of the diminution of the 
quantity manufactured, but shews rather that the wine- 
farmer, by being in a condition to increase his stock of casks, 
is enabled to keep his wine at home, and not obliged, as he 
usually was, to deliver it to the wine merchants in the Cape 
at their own price. This circumstance has contributed not a 
little to the melioration of the colonial wines. 
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