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been wrecked on the KafFer coaft ; and by it may be explained 
the reafon why fhips, coming from, the north-eaftward, ahiioft 
invariably fall in with the land, to the northward of Algoa 
Bay, a full degree or more before they make it by their obferv- 
ations or reckoning. Immediately beyond Algoa Bay the 
coaft, in the charts, is ufually made to trend to the north-eaft, 
and even to the northward of this point, whereas, in reality, it 
runs only eaft-north-eaft to the mouth of the Great FIfh River, 
or Rio d'Infante, whofe latitude at this place, by repeated ob- 
fervations, I found to be 33° 23^ fouth ; and from hence to 
the mouth of the Keifkamma in the KafFer country, the direc- 
tion continues pretty nearly the fame ; after which, and not 
before, the coaft begins to trend more to the northward. At the 
mouth of this river I had alfo anMbfervation for the latitude, 
which I found to be 33° \ i' fouth. The latitude of the true 
Cape point is 34° 22' fouth; fo that, in the diftance of 
about fix hundred and fifty miles, the coaft inclines to the 
northward no more than feventy miles from the parallel of the 
true Cape of Good Hope, which is very far from being the 
cafe in any of the fea or land-charts I have ever feen. It may 
not be amifs to fubjoin the errors in latitude of thefe eaftera 
points, as. they appear in fome of the charts. 
Neptune 
