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Reverie with in the Garter of the Order is this Legend. 
CAROL. M. B. REGIS. f FILMS CAROL. PRINC. 
IN AUGUR ATUR. XXII. MAIL MDCXXXI 1 X. 
The Infcription at Bofcobel reminds me of one I had from 
the late Reverend Mr. lllingfworth , President of Emanml 
College in Cambridge , which was Infcribed upon a Pillar 
ere&ed by the Sea fide. 
Si fie, viator, iter, vejligia prim a fecundus ,■ 
P of nit hie Carolus, quum redit exilio. 
VII. An Account of the Cape of Good Hope, hy 
Jyfr. John Maxwell : Communicated hy the '7{eVe~ 
rend Dr. John Harris, F. % $. 
T HE Cape of Good Hope, which is part of Monombtapa, 
and the Southernmoft part of Africa, lies in the 
Latitude of 34 Degrees 30 Minutes South, and 1 6 De- 
grees 15 Minutes Eaft of London. It was firft, that we 
know’ of, difeovered by Bartholomew Diaz, A. D. 1493, 
under John II. King of Portugal. He gave it the Name of 
the Cape of Tempejls, becaufe of the Storms he met with 
there, with which ’tis not ftrange that it is fometimes trou- 
bled -j as likewife with a Sea that runs very high, and makes 
it ill tiding at Anchor there when the Wind is at North- 
Weft, feeing it is a Shread of Land ftretch’d out into a 
vaft Ocean on each fide ; but King John gave it the Name 
of Bona Efperanea, or of Good Hope, which it ft ill retains, 
14 Z 2 becaufe 
