SOUTHERN AFRICA. 9 
Plettenberg and the late colonel Gordon. Thefe two gentlemen 
fixed, upon the fpot, the boundaries of the colony, as they now 
ftand, to the eaftward. To complete the line of demarcation, 
through the heart of the country to the weftern fhore, was one 
of the objeds of the feveral journies that fupplied the materials 
of the following pages. The chart that accompanies them was 
undertaken and executed by the order of the earl of Macartney 
in the years 1797 and 1798, when thefs journies were made. 
It was conftrudted entirely from adlual obfervations of latitude 
and of bearings, eftimation of diftances, and frequent angular 
interfe<3:ions of remarkable points and objedls. 
From this chart it appears that the extent and dimenfions of 
the territory compofmg the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, 
now permanently fixed, are as follows : 
Length from weft to eaft. 
Cape Point to Kaffer Land, - - j8o miles. 
River Kouffie to Zuureberg, - - ^■20 — — 
Breadth from fouth to north. 
River Kouffie to Cape Point, - - 315 • 
Nieuwveldt Mountains to Plettenberg's Bay, 160 
Mouth of the Tufh-river to Plettenberg's baaken, 225 — — 
which gives a parallelogram whofe mean length is 550, and 
mean breadth 233, Englifh miles, comprehending an area of 
128,150 fquare miles. This great extent of country, deducting 
the population of Cape Town, is peopled by about 15,000 
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