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knowledge, have enabled him to acquire a more intimate 1780. 
and perfect knowledge of this part of Africa, than could 
have fallen to the lot of any other perfon: and it is with 
great pleafure I can congratulate the Public on the informa¬ 
tion I have received of his intentions to give the world, 
from his own hand, a hiftory of his travels. 
Falfe Bay, fituated to the Eaftward of the Gape of Good 
Hope, is frequented by {hipping during the prevalence of 
the North Weft winds, which begin to blow in May, and 
make it dangerous to lie in Table Bay. It is terminated on 
the Weft by the Cape of Good Hope, and on the Eaftward 
by Falfe Cape. 
The entrance of the Bay is fix leagues wide, the two 
Capes bearing from each other due Eaft and Weft. About 
eleven miles from the Cape of Good-Hope, on the Weft fide, 
is fituated Simon’s Bay, the only convenient ftation for {hips 
to lie in; for although the road without it affords good 
anchorage, it is too open, and but ill circumftanced for 
procuring neceffaries, the town being ftnall, and fupplied 
with provifions from Cape Town, which is about twenty- 
four miles diftant. To the North North Eaft of Simon’s 
Bay, there are feveral others, from which it may be eafily 
diftinguifhed, by a remarkable fandy way to the Northward 
of the town, which makes a {hiking object. In fteering 
for the harbour, along the Weft fhore, there is a fmall flat 
rock, called Noah’s Ark, and about a mile to the North Eaft 
of it, feveral others, called the Roman Rocks. Thefe lie 
one mile and a half from the anchoring-place; and either 
between them, or to the Northward of the Roman Rocks, 
there is a fafe paffage into the Bay. When the North Weft 
gales are fet in, the following bearings will direct the mari¬ 
ner to a fafe and commodious birth: Noah’s Ark, South 51 0 
3 Q 2 Eaft, 
