VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
appropriates thofe hours he can fpare from his military 
duties (in which he is faid to excel), to a perufal of the 
book of nature, and refearches after ufeful knowledge. 
Thefe purfuits tend not only to his amufement, but to his 
honour ; and they will, doubtlefs, at fome time or other, 
further conduce to the advancement of natural hiftory, and 
to the honour of his country ; as it is faid he intends to 
publifh the obfervations and remarks which have been the 
refult of his refearches. Thofe he has made on the Hotten- 
tots, Caffres, and the countries they inhabit, will doubt- 
lefsly be valuable; he having made himfelf better acquainted 
with the fubjedl, and penetrated farther into the interior 
parts, than any traveller or naturalift that has hitherto 
vifited the Cape. It is to be lamented, that he has fo long 
withheld from the world the gratification and improvement, 
which mofi; afTuredly muft be derived from the obfervations 
of a perfon fo well and fo extenfively informed. His polite 
attention and civility, during our flay at the Cape, claim 
our moft grateful acknowledgments. 
Befides their hofpital, the Dutch Eall: India company 
have feveral other public buildings, which tend to improve 
the appearance of the town. The two principal of thefe 
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