C O N T E N ' T S.
G H AP. I.
P K E C lM ttT A I tT SUBJECT.
Motives that gave R ife to the prefent Volume.— -Importance o f ftudying th e D ifpoftion
o f Inhabitants— o f gaining local Informtäion,— Affiduity o f the French in theft
RefpeBs— infanted'ina- Variety o f Gafts-—combine nattonaiwith individual Views
— their Difperfion by the late Revolution— endeavour to aftraB the Notice• o f their
Country.— E x tra B fr om th e Travels o f the Duke o f Rochefaucault Liancourt-—
his Sentiments tkofe o f the* Emigrants.-— French indefatigable in their Purfuits
abroad— Progrefs made in-India— in the Birman Empire— in Cochin-China— 'the
Dangery or Adioantagfj that England may derive fron t the- la f CöhneBiori.— Con-
f derations reJpeBing Macao.— French communicate Knowledge—-Dutch and Portu-
guefe impede it with regard to their Colonies’— Gape o f Good Hope an Exception to this
Remark— Knowledge o f i f imperfeB— and Accounts corttradiBoryi-— Various Authors
who’' have' 'written on the Subject-— ! achard-— Me r kl i n*— ValeHtyn—-Kolbe—
Abbed e‘1 aC ailie >— SpaTrmann— Thunberg—^-Patterfon—«Hoppfe—- V ariReenen.
— Maps- o f Captain- Riou and D e la> Rochette.—’-Important Obfervathns on the
South Coafi o f Africa— Errors o f different- Charts'— Ohfervations on Monileur L c
YaillantV Work— Mahner in which- the Chart prefixed to the prefent Work was
confruBed.— Difagreement-between the'Chart and the F ex t explained.— Feßimony
o f General Vandekur. — MffrepYefentaticHS o f the Cape accounted1 fo r .— General
Nature and Appearance o f the Country— Improvements ßsggeßed.— Change in the
national CharaBer o f the Dutch in their Colonies— their helplefs Condition in Batavia.—
Indufey and A B iv ity o f the'Chinefe there— their Numbers— would- prove
a valuable Acquifition to the Cape— real Importance o f this Colony to England.—
Conclußm. - - - * Page I
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