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547. Some account of the Cape of Good Hope
Notwistanding that Hydrographers limit the Cape of good hope to a single point of Land on the SW End of Africa which is not the Southernmost Land part of that immense continent I shall under that name speak of the Southern parts of Africa in general as far as Lat. 30 = 00 N N or thereabouts at least which countrey was originaly inhabited by the Hottentots alone but is now settled by the Dutch and from its conveniency of situation as a place of refreshment for ships sailing to & from India is visited perhaps by Europeans oftener than any other distant part of the Globe
This tract of Land vast as it is is settled by the Dutch who have also people much farther in land if their accounts can be credited they have upon the whole of it however only one town which is generaly known by the Name of the Cape Town it is situated on the Atlantick side about 20 miles to the Northward of the Real Cape on the Banks of a bay shelterd from the SE wind by
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