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miles, was performed in thirty- nine days: for having chap. 
left Rio on the 4th of September, on the 13th of OcSlo- ^— ^* — ' 
ber the fliips came to anchor in Table Bay. Here they ^'^j'^^'g'^ 
v/ere to take their final refrefhment, and lay in every 
kind of flock v/ith which they were not already pro- 
vided. In this period no additional lives had been lofl, 
except that of a fingle convi6l belonging to the Charlotte ■ 
tranfport, who fell accidentally into the fea, and could, 
not by any efforts be recovered, ' \- ■ 
Table Bay, on the north-weft fide of the Cape of. " 
Good Hope, is named from the Table Mountain, a pro- ■ 
montory of confiderable elevation, at the foot of which, 
and almofi: in the centre of the Bay, fiands GapeTown,. 
the principal Dutch fettlement in this territory. This 
Bay cannot, properly be called a port, being by no means 
a ftation of fecurity ; it is expofed to all the violence of 
the \yinds wliich fet into it from the fea ; and is far 
from fufficiently fecured from tliofe which blow from- • . 
the land. The gufis v/hich defcend from the fnmmit 
of Table Mountain are fufficient to force fnips from their " . ' 
anchors, and even violently to annoy perfons on the 
lliore, by defiroying any tents or other temporary edi- 
fices v/hich may be ere6led, and raifing clouds of fine . 
dufl, which produce very troublefome etfeds. A gale of 
this kind, fi^om the fouth-eafc, blew for three days fiic- 
cefiively when Capt. Gook lay here in his firil: voya2;e, a.t 
which time, lie informs us, the Refolution v\-as the only 
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