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muft have arlfen, I fuppofe, from adopting, in the manufcript, 
the longitudes of Mr. Rice after the chart had been finifhed 
and fent to England, on the return of the Earl of Macartney ; 
whereas, the manufcript was not tranfmitted for publication till 
twelve months afterwards. For I obferve that the bays, on the 
fouth coaft of the chart, are a little more eafterly than they are 
faid to be in the text ; but in all the other parts, except the 
bays, the one exadily correfponds with the other. 
That the relative fituations of the feveral parts of the chart are 
correct, or pretty nearly fo, I can venture to pronounce, as no pains 
were fpared, nor precautions negleded, to make it as complete as 
the means T employed would admit ; I have, indeed, received the 
flattering teftimony of Brigadier (now Major-General) Vandeleur 
who, after travelling from the Cape of Good Hope to the Great 
Fifli River, and from thence to Graaf Reynet, with a copy of 
the chart in his hand, and a good perambulator, obferves, that 
be had not been able to difcover an error amounting to ten 
miles in any part of the country over which he had palTed. It 
may be right to mention, however, that I cannot be very cer- 
tain as to the fea-coaft between Saint Helena Bay and the 
Khamiefberg, as I could only obtain a fight of that coaft from 
thefe two points'; but the error cannot be confiderable, nor of 
much importance, as charts of this defcription are not ufed for 
nautical purpofes. The great objedl was to afcertain the extent 
of the fettlement ; the natural produdions it afforded ; and 
the relative pofition of its boundaries to the neighbouring tribes 
of natives ; points, important as they were, that had hitherto 
not been determined. ., 
YOL, II. E The 
