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point of land between the great Mouille or Moulin battery, and Three 

 Anchor Bay, under the Lion's Rump, at the entrance of Table Bay, is a 

 lighthouse with a double light. The following directions are given for 

 sailing into the Bay by night. Ships coming from the S. and W. with a 

 leading wind, not making the lighthouse before night, may steer along the 

 coast to the N. E., until they open the lights of the arising laud about the 

 Lion's Head, when the two lights will be their breadth open of each other, 

 and bear about E. by N.; they may then haul in towards them, taking care, 

 as they approach, to keep them well open on the starboard bow : steer to 

 the eastward, until the lights come on with each other, i. e. are one, or 

 until they bear S. W. { S.; they will then be abreast of the N. W. extre- 

 mity of Table Bay, and may haul in S. by E. or S. S. E., according to 

 circumstances, for the anchorage. When the lights are shutting in by the 

 rising land of the upper Moulin battery, bearing N. W. by W., they will 

 be approaching the outer anchorage, where they may safely anchor for the 

 night, in 7 or 8 fathoms water, fine sand. Care should be taken not to 

 run into less than 5\ or 6 fathoms, unless well acquainted. — Ships from the 

 N. anil W. should observe the same directions with respect to passing the 

 lights, &c. — Ships working in with the wind from the S. and E., alter being 

 abreast of the lights, should not stand to the E. farther than 2{ or 3 miles, 

 or until they shoal the water to 8 or 7 J fathoms. — N. B. The bearings are 

 all by compass, variation 27 W. 



The non-existence of a supposed dangerous shoal, called the Tettmaque, 

 is now ascertained by survey, 1622. 



CAPE TOWN, the capital, is at the head of Table Bay, in latitude 

 33° 58 S., longitude 18 g 35 E., on a plain sloping from the mountains. 

 The houses are regular, and the streets intersect at right angles. In one 

 of the squares the market is held; in another the peasants resort with 

 their waggons ; a third is used as a Parade for the troops. The Castle is a 

 regular pentagon. The Barracks and most of the Public Offices are within 

 the walls of the Fort, to the body of which there is but one entrance on 

 the town side. The Commercial Exchange is a large and handsome building 

 on the W. extremity of the Parade. The number of inhabitants in Cape 

 Town in 1821, was 18,4-22. 



Tuade. — The principal product of the Cape is wine, which of late 

 has greatly increased in quantity. In 1821, the number of bearing vines 

 in the colony was computed to be 22,400,100; and the produce 21,333 

 pipes. The other articles are oil, aloes, hides, ivory, ostrich feathers, argol, 

 barilla, Sec. The exports of merchandize from the Cape to all parts of 

 the world amounted in 1821 to upwards of two millions of rlx-dollars, and 

 that of bills to nearly 3 millions ; the imports were 6,660,244. The colo- 



