SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
young, and fufFered to run among the cattle, would In all proba- 
bility have intercourfe with the cows ; at leaft the other fpecies 
of the bovine tribe, when domefticated, have been found to mix 
together without any difficulty. Such a connection would pro- 
duce a change in the prefent breed of cattle in the colony, and 
without doubt for the better : a worfe it could not well be than 
the common long-legged ox of the country. 
On the evening of the eighteenth we arrived at Zwart-kofs^ 
or Algoa bay^ and found His Majefty's brig, the Hope, riding 
at anchor there. This bay is open to every point of the com- 
pafs from north-eaft to fouth-eaft, and of courfe affords no kind 
of (helter againft the prevailing winds. The bottom, however, 
is generally fine fand and good holding-ground. Ships may 
anchor in five fathoms at the diftance of a mile from the gene- 
ral landing-place, which is on the weft fide of the bay ; but 
veffels of great burden fhould keep farther out on account of the 
very heavy fwell that almoft perpetually rolls in from the eaft- 
ward. The latitude of the landing-place is 33° 56' fouth, and 
longitude 26° 53' eaft of Greenwich ; and the diftance from the 
Cape, in a dired line, 500 Englifh miles. The time of high- 
water, at full and change of the moon, appears to be about 
three o'clock, and the tide rifes between fix and feven feet. 
The extent of the bay, from the weftern point to the eaftern 
extremity, where it rounds oflf into the general pending of the 
coaft, is about twenty miles ; and the fhore, except from the 
landing-place to the weft point, is a fine, fmooth, fandy beach. 
The rivers that fall into the bay are the Zwart-kop's^ the Kooka^ 
and the Sunday, The mouth of each of thefe rivers is clofed up 
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