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INDEX. 
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plans for the government of - II. i66 
physical guarantee of Britisli India II. 168 
proposals respecting - - II. 171 
strange conduct of the East India 
Company - - II. 174 
advantages of its local position - II. iSi 
as a depot of troops - II. 182 
healthiness of the climate of - II. 1S3 
clieapncss of subsistence - II. i8y 
total expence of maintaining the 
garrison of - - II. 195 
probable expence of in time of 
peace - - II. 198 
public revenue of - - II. 199 
number of shipping cleared out in 
four years - - II. 202 
importance of, to different nations il. 203 
valuable to England as a point of 
security - - II. 204 
danger of leaving it in the hands of 
France - - II. 206 
opinion of M. de la Croix respect- 
ing it - - II. 218 
defences of stated - - II. 223 
modes of attack - - II. 232 
Dutch garrison at - II. 234 
deplorable condition of the inha- 
bitants of - - II. 237 
importance of as a naval station - II. 239 
necessary to the Dutch navigation 
to India - - II. 243 
preferable to Rio de Janeiro or St. 
Helena - - IL 246 
overtures for the purchase of - II. 250 
importance of its geographical po- 
sition - - - II. 261 
preferable to Ceylon in the eyes of 
France - - - II. 270 
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intention of the United Provinces 
respecting - - II. 294 
and Ceylon compared - II. 270 
recovery of indispensably necessary II. 272 
disadvantages of as a naval station II. 273 
danger of becoming a tree port - II. 296 
considered as an emporium of 
Eastern produce - II. 302 
consumption of grain in - II. ji^J 
ill wine and brandy II. 316 
value of the exports from - II. 336 
of imports from Britain and 
her colonies - - 11. 337 
state of since the surrender - II. 340 
unimportance of in a commercial 
point of view - - II. 341 
as a station for the Southern Wliale 
Fishery - - II. 349 
general description of - - II. i 
population, stocit, and produce of II. 83 
importance of - - II. 161 
statistical sketch of - II. i — 12 
general view of the country II. 3, 4, ^. 
II, 12, 13 
its division into districts, and in- 
ternal government - II. 25 
description of the Cape district - II. 25, 
26, 27 
Cape and Egypt, circumstances of 
analogy between - - I. 254 
Cape Toivn, what determined the 
site of - - II. 224 
condition of the inhabitants of - II. 91 
consuraptiun of - - II. 5^ 
christenings, marriages, burials, 
&c. in - .11. 50 
police of - - - II. 105 
description of - 11. 26, 27 
