Map of Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula showing military installations including the Castle, Fort Knokke, Craig's tower and battery, and other batteries including Roggebay [Roggebaai], Amsterdam and Chavonne. Shows topography of the peninsula including Table Mountain, as well as the layout of the city with several detailed keys to the many features included. Relief shown pictorially. Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian. 2 bar scales on map, given in "Roods hollandaises" and "Yards ou verges anglaises." Index at lower left and lower right. "I have added a military map of the said peninsula, the outline of which was taken, I believe, some years ago by a French engineer, was afterwards filled up by different officers in the Dutch service, and was examined, corrected, and verified with great care and accuracy, by Captain (now Lieutenant-Colonel) Bridges of the British engineers ..."--Travels into the interior of Southern Africa / by John Barrow. London : T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1806. 2nd ed. Vol. II, p. 223. Nouveau voyage dans la partie méridionale de l'Afrique / par John Barrow. Paris : Dentu, 1806. "2e. Voyage de Barrow en Afrique, Tom I, p. 253." at top right. Compass rose.
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