Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0652
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Some account of the Cape of Good Hope
a Large mountain level at the top from whence both itself & the bay have got the name of Tafel or Table it is of Late years very much increasd in size & consists of about a thousand houses neatly built of Brick & in general whited over the Streets in general are broad & commodious all crossing each other at Right angles in the Cheif of them is a Canal on each side of which is a row of Oak trees which flourish tolerably well & yeild an agreable shade to walkers besides this there is another Canal running through the town but the slope of the Ground is so great that both are obligd to be furnishd with sluices at the intervals of Little more than 50 yards.
In the Houses the same poverty of inventions exists here as at Batavia they are almost universaly built upon one & the same plan whether small or large in general they are low & universaly they are coverd with thatch precautions said to be necessary