18. By the mid-r Sfios, Kimberley,two hundred miles from the coast,
was a bustling city of twenty thousand inhabitants. It had modern
shops, a library, a hospital, a posh dub for the elite, and even electric
light. Wagons brought produce to the market square, where
auctioneers sold it in lots.
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