CONTENTS. 
of in this RefpeS! — poffeffes all the Requifites dejired by the Eajl India Company as a 
Depot. — Healthinefs of Climate y various Proofs of—feafons the Conflituiion for 
India — remarkable Inflance of in upwards of two thoufand Men fent to India — ano- 
ther in twelve hundred to the Red Sea. — Difficulties farted agaitfl this Expedition. 
— Importance of the Cape on account of the fmall Expence of fubffling Troops there.— 
Value of the Ration here and elfewhere. — Price of Provifons — of Wine. — Profits 
derived by the Government at the Cape from Bills on his Majeffs Paymafers-^ 
from Specie imported— from Copper Money — from iffuing new Paper Money.— Ex- 
penditun in the military Department — a mere Trifle compared with the Importance of 
the Station — capable of being home in Peace out of the colonial Revenues.— Importance 
_ cf the Cape on account of its local Pofuion — iriftanced in detecting the Views ofTippoo 
<it the Ifle of France — fending Troops expeditioufy to India. — Opportunities of doing 
this in Etiglifij or neutral Ships.— General Advantages. — Importance of the Cape 
fated in comparifon with that of Malta. — Views of the French on India— feen in 
the Publication of Anquetil Duperron. — Difadvantages of Malta being in the 
Hands of the French Difficulties that would attend an Expedition by Sea from, 
Suez. — I/land of Perim. — Difficjilties that would occur by Land — 7iot infurmount- 
able. — De la Croix^s Opinion of the Cape- — Defences of the Cape. — Table Bay and 
Site of the Town—JVorks — Citadel — Lines — Craig s Battery and Tower^Fort 
Knoche- — Rogge Bay, Amflerdami and Chavonne Batteries— the Mouille — Camfs 
Ba^ and Batteries — Importance of the Lion's Rump—OhjeBionsagainflit. — Chap- 
man and Hout Bays. — Simon's Bay.-—Garrifon of the Cape, Strength of.—XJnpro- 
teBed Coafl and Bays. — Algoa Bay. — Means to he employed by an Enemy for dif- 
irefftng the Garrifon — tahn by a Coup de Main. — Garrifon of the Dutch.— 
Difpofition of the Hottentot Corps, — State of the Batavian Ships of War in the 
Eaflern Seas.— Ammunition and Stores at the Cape. - Page 143 
CHAP. IV. 
Importance of the Cape of Good Hope, confidered as a Naval 
Station. 
Comparative fmall Space occupied by the Britifh Iflands— their Weight among Nations 
accounted for.— -Commerce the Source of Briti/lj Wealth,— Precarioufnefs of the tnert 
Carrying • 
