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and a long range of low buildings that were converted, under 
the Engliili government, into a general hofpital, with lodgings 
■for the iufpetior, ftorekeeper, and apothecary to the forces. 
On ilie weft of the bay are three ftrong batteries at the points 
K, L, M, the Rogge-bay battery, the Amfterdam battery, and 
the Chavonne battery, the guns of which all bear diredly upon 
the anchorage. At N is alio a fmall battery, called the Mouille, 
commanding the entrance of the bay ; for all fliips, when com- 
ing in, keep the point of the Mouille clofe on board, and go 
out of the bay between Roben Ifland and the continent. A 
little farther, at the point O, where there is a fmall fandy cove, 
a work was thrown up with a few light guns and a furnace for 
heating (hot, to prevent a landing at this place, which they 
have further endeavoured to impede by fixing three anchors 
acrofs the inlet. A very few fhot from one of our frigates foon, 
however, diflodged the enemy from this work. 
At Camp's Bay, on the weftern coaft of the peninfula, there 
are alfo a few fmall batteries, and a military poll on the height 
above it, diredly between the Table Mountain and the Lion's 
Head. An almoft perpetual furf rolls upon the fandy beach of 
Camp's Bay, otherwife, this might be confidered as a very vul- 
nerable point. An army landing here, and at Three Anchor 
Bay, might take the town and all the batteries in their rear, or, 
which would ftill be more important, might get pofTeffion of 
the Lion's Rump at F, from whence, with a few howitzers, the 
town and citadel, and the ftrong batteries on the weft fide of 
Table Bay, would be completely commanded. And this hill 
has 
