REMARKS. 
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laid down on my own responsibility, either from the reported bearings and 
distances given me by the natives, such as all the country beyond the Gariep, 
or by the Hottentots or the boors, for a number of places within the Colony ; 
others from a distant view of them, such as mountains or the sea-coast, 
particularly that extending from the Great Fish River to Gaurits River. 
It will easily be comprehended how I have been able to convert 
faulty and inaccurate materials to my use, so as to produce a more correct 
map than the originals from which they were taken, if it be considered that 
my own observ^ations being first laid down, I had the frame-work of an 
entirely new construction ; to which I fitted and forced into shape, this 
heterogeneous collection of pieces. I believe, therefore, it will not be 
found to be claiming too much for this map, if it should be asserted that, 
in addition to a large and entirely new contribution to the geography of the 
southernmost part of Africa, it contains the sum of all that was previously 
laid before the public, or, at least, that could be thought useful or authentic'; 
while, at the same time, the blank spaces exhibit to view the large proportion 
of unexplored country, still left within its limits. 
Tiie whole of the western coast, northward from St. Helena bay, may 
be regarded as a mere sketch ; and the course of the Gariep, from the 
twenty-third degree of longitude to its mouth, is laid down on the authority 
only of the Klaarwater Hottentots ; from whose report, also, I have ob- 
tained a confirmation of the existence of Le Vaillant's Fish River. But 
of the country of the Great Namaqiias and Dammaras, I have not been 
able to gain any geographical particulars which could be deemed sufficiently 
defined for the purposes of a map. Of the names in the country of the 
Little Namaqiias, the greater number have been adopted from the journals 
of Paterson and Le Vaillant ; while the former, with Thunberg and Lich- 
tenstein, have been consulted for the Further Bokkeveld, the Hantam, and 
the Further Roggeveld. The course along the Karro, from Verkeerde Valley 
to Sneeuwberg, is obtained from the journals of Lichtenstein, Le Vaillant, 
and Paterson ; and Kannaland and Kamnasiland, from Thunberg and Sparr- 
man. From the strange confusion and contradictions which are to be found 
in the pretended maps of that part of the Colony northward of Zisoartland, 
I will not be answerable for the entire correctness of that district. For a 
sketch of the country eastward of the Great Fish River, there does not at 
present exist any materials which can be depended on. 
The names of the diflterent Colo7iial districts have been omitted, not 
only because their boundaries are ill defined and little known, even to the 
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