SOUTHERN AFRICA. i; 
had touched at Angra Peqtiena^ a fmall bay in latitude 26° 36' 
fouth, might have been feen by the Damaras, or the Great Na- 
maquas. The other publication is a Journal of Van Reencn, 
who, with fome of the Dutch peafantry, proceeded through 
the Kaffer country, in fearch of the palTengers and crew of the 
Grofvenor that was wrecked on the coaft a little to the fouth- 
ward of De la Goa Bay. This journal was publifhed by Cap- 
tain RiQU in England, with the addition of a map, conftrudted 
from the materials contained in the journal, and the information 
of a Dutch navigator. It is therefore hardly neceffary to ob- 
ferve that, from fuch data^ it could not be otherwife than de- 
fedive in moft of the effential points that conftitute the value 
of a fea-chart. It is incorrect in the latitudes and longitudes, 
in the indentations of the coaft, and in the fize and fhape of 
the bays. A partial map of the colony by De la Rochette has 
alfo been lately publifhed, which is fo far incorred, even in the 
vicinity of the Cape, that the foiir-and-twenty rivers are made 
to flow in an oppofite direction to that which is actually the 
cafe. 
In fpcaking of charts, it may not, perhaps, be confidered un- 
important to obferve in this place, that the whole of the coaft 
of South Africa, between Algoa or Zwartkop's Bay, and that 
of De la Goa^ ftretches, in reality, much farther to the eaftward, 
(making the continent in this part much wider,) than it is laid 
down in any of the fea-charts that have hitherto been publifhed ; 
by feveral degrees more eafterly than fome of them make it. 
To this circumftance may, probably, have been owing the lofs 
of the Grofvenor Indiaman, and many other fhips that have 
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