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powerful afiiftance he has derived from his rank and fitua- »7So. 



r April. 



tion there, joined to an active and indefatigable fpirir, and \- — , * 



an eager thirft after knowledge, have enabled him to ac- 

 quire a more intimate and perfect knowledge of this part of 

 Africa, than could have fallen to the lot of any other per- 

 fon : and it is with great pleafui e I can congratulate the 

 Public on the information I have received of his intentions 

 to give the world, from his own hand, a hiftory of his 

 travels. 



Falfe Bay, fituated to the Eaflward of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, is frequented by fliipping during the prevalence of 

 the North Weft winds, which begin to blow in May, and make 

 it dangerous to lie in Table Bay. It is terminated on the 

 •Weft by the Cape of Good Hope, and on the Eaftward by 

 Falfe Cape. 



The entrance of the Bay is fix leagues wide, the two 

 Capes bearing from each other due Eaft and Weft. About 

 eleven miles from the Cape of Good Hope, on the Weft fide, 

 is fituated Simon's Bay, the only convenient ftation for fliips 

 to lie in ; for although the road without it affords good 

 anchorage, it is too open, and but ill circumftanced for 

 procuring neceffaries, the town being fmall, and fupplied 

 with provifions from Cape Town, which is about twenty- 

 four miles diftant. To the North North Eaft of Simon's- 

 Bay, there are feveral others, from which it may be eafily- 

 diftinguifhed, by a remarkable fandy way to the Northward 

 of the town, which makes a ftriking object. In fleering 

 for the harbour, along the Weft fhorc, there is a fmall flat 

 rock, called Noah's Ark, and about a mile to the North Eaft 

 of it, feveral others, called the Roman Rocks. Thefe lie 

 one mile and a half from the anchoring place j and either 



between 



