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Title: Plan militaire de la péninsule du Cap
Subject: Cape Peninsula (South Africa) -- Maps.
Description: 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. The map also 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., "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., Appears in Nouveau voyage dans la partie méridionale de l'Afrique / par John Barrow. Paris : Dentu, 1806., Bar scales given in "Roods hollandaises" and "Yards ou verges anglaises".
Identifier: islandora:19684

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