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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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