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Others are of opinion, that a moderate force of infantry and 
artillery, landed at Three Anchor Bay, might eafily fucceed in 
getting pofl'effion of Amfterdam battery in the rear, as well as 
the Chavonne and Rogge Bay batteries, after which the caftle 
would no longer be tenable, and the town would be at the 
mercy of the attacking party. Perhaps the flrongeft impreffion 
might be made by combining the two opinions ; though a large 
force might probably prefer landing on the eaftern beach of 
Table Bay, where there is nothing to interrupt them, crofs the 
Salt River, and carry the lines by a Coup de Main, after which, 
as I have before obferved, the caftle muft immediately fall, and 
the ganifon furrender at difcretion. 
The Dutch garrlfon, at the evacuation of the colony by the 
Englifh, in March laft, were certainly not capable of oppofin^ 
any very confiderable refiftance, or to defend the place againft 
a fplrited attack, conduded by an officer of fkill and local ex- 
perience. Three or four fhips of the line, with four thoufand 
men, would be fully fufficient to carry their point ; provided 
the Dutch fhould receive no reinforcements from the French, 
which, hitherto, there are no grounds for fuppofmg to be the 
cafe. The whole garrifon, when complete, was intended to 
confift of three thoufand men ; of thefe were already arrived, 
at that time, barely two thoufand, confifting in a regiment of 
the Prince of Waldec, about fix hundred ftrong ; three hundred 
cavalry ; three hundred artillery ; two or three companies of 
grenadiers, and the reft jagers or a light rifle corps, totally un- 
difciplined, and compofed of almoft every nation on the face of 
fhe earth, being, for the moft part, deferters from the German 
regiments. 
