TRAVELS IN 
have conftruded It in his clofet from recolleflion, otherwiie 
errors of two and even three hundred miles in latitude, as wc 
fhall prefently fee, could not have happened. Thunberg^ ano- 
ther Swede, travelled a great deal within the limits of the co- 
lony, and made many valuable additions to the difcoveries of 
Sparrmann in the natural hiflory of the country ; yet, although 
he defcribes objects as they prefented themfelves before him, 
and touches on a variety of fubjedls, his book, being made up 
of a colledion of incomplete and unconnected paragraphs, 
whofe juxta-pofition are fometimes whimfical enough, conveys 
neither accurate topography nor even a general idea of the co-^ 
lony. 
The work of our countryman Mr. (now lieutenant-colonel) 
Patterfoti^ is a mere journal of occurrences, with defcriptions 
of a few fubjefts in natural hiftory, fome of which, at that 
time, were new ; but the information it contains, with regard 
to the extent and population of the colony, the charader of 
the fettlers and of the natives, is very flight ; and he has re- 
publifhed the very defedive map of Sparrmann^ 
There are, alfo, two modern publications of travels made 
by Dutchmen. The one is by Hoppe^ who attended an expe- 
dition that was fent from the Cape to the northvv?ard, in fearch 
of a nation that were reported to wear linen cloathing. This 
expedition made very little progrefs on account of the want of 
water, and the failure of their cattle. The nation, in all pro- 
bability, was the Portugueze colony on the fouthern part of 
Angola ; or, perhaps, fome feamen belonging to a whaler that 
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