The map spans the area from Saldanha Bay to False Bay and shows land cultivated by the Dutch East India Company (with Italian versions of the names of many of the early farmers), sweet water wells, salt pans, woods, rivers and sailing ships off the West Coast. The map indicates "Isola di Robbi" (Robben Island) and "Isola de Daini" (Dassen Island), routes to the homesteads of indigenous peoples and the real or imagined location of "Elefanti", "Tigri" and "Rinoceri". Included is a detailed, ornamental, coloured cartouche depicting an elephant, a rhinoceros, people building a hut with wood and grass, trees, ships at anchor and mountains across the bay. Relief shown pictorially. Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian. Bar scale on map given in "Miglia." Key in upper right. Atlante novissimo che contiene tutti le parti del mondo / Guillaume de l'Isle. Venice : Presso Giambatista Albrizzi, 1740-1750. Compass rose.
Image courtesy University of Cape Town Libraries, Special Collections: Maps scanned under the William and Yvonne Jacobson Digital Africana Program at UCT. If you have questions, please contact David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.
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