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TRAVELS IN 
fituation in which, for the two laft months, they had been 
placed, in confequence of the order from England countermand- 
ing the reftoration of the fettlement, was highly honourable to 
their feelings as men and officers. Few places, I believe, have 
been ceded by one power to another with more regularity and 
iefs commotion, than what happened at the reftoration of the 
Cape of Good Hope, by General Dundas on the part of his 
Majefty's Government to the reprefentatives of the Batavian Re- 
public. 
