CONTENTS. 
CHAP. I. 
PRELIMINARY SUBJECT. 
Motives that gave Rife to the prefent Volume. — Importance of Jiudfing the Difpofiiiori 
of Inhabitants — of gaining local Information. — AJJlduity of the French in thefe 
RefpeBs — injlanced in a Variety of Cafes — combine national with individual Views 
^their Dfperfion by the late Revolution — endeavour to attraB the Notice of their 
Country. — ExtraB from the Travels of the Duke of Rochefaucault Liancourt — ■ 
his Sentiments thofe of the Emigrants. — French indefatigable in their Purfuits 
abroad— Progrefs made in India— in the Birman Empire — in Cochin-China — the 
Danger^ or Advantage^ that England may derive from the laf ConneBion. — Con- 
fiderations refpeBing Macao. — French communicate Knowledge — Dutch and Portu- 
guefe impede it with regard to their Colonies— 'Cape of Good Hope an Exception to this 
Remark — Knowledge of it imperfeB — and Accounts contradiBory. — Various Authors 
who have written on the SubjeB — Tachard — Merklin — Valentyn — Kolbe— 
AbbedelaCaille — Spatrnnann — Thunberg — Patterfon — Hoppe— -Van Reenen. 
—Maps of Captain Riou and De la Rochette. — Important Obfervations on the 
South Coaf of Africa— Errors of different Charts — Obfervations on Monfieur Lc 
Vaillant'j Work — Manner in which the Chart prefixed to the prefent Work was 
eonJlruBed.—Difagr cement between the Chart and the Text explained.'^Ttflimony 
of General Vandeleur. — Mifreprefentations of the Cape accounted for. — General 
Nature and Appearance of the Country— Improvements fuggefied. — Change in the 
national CharaBer of the Dutch in their Colofiies — their helplefs Condition in Ba- 
tavia. — Indufiry and ABivity of the Chinefe there — their Numbers — would prove 
a valuable Acqufition to the Cape — real Importance of this Colony to England.— 
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