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AN

ACCOUNT

OF

TRAVELS

INTO THE

INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA,

IN THE YEARS 1797 AND 1798:

INCLUDING

CURSORY OBSERVATIONS

ON THE

GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THAT CONTINENT;
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SUCH OBJECTS AS OCCURRED IN THE
ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, AND MINERAL KINGDOMS;

AND

SKETCHES ON THE PHYSICAL AND MORAL CHARACTERS OF THE VARIOUS
TRIBES OF INHABITANTS SURROUNDING THE SETTLEMENT OF THE

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

TO WHICH IS ANNEXED,.

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT STATE, PÓPULATION, AND PRODUCE
OF THAT EXTENSIVE COLONY;

WITH

A MAP,

CONSTRUCTED ENTIRELY FROM ACTUAL OBSERVATIONS,
MADE IN THE COURSE OF THE TRAVELS.

BY JOHN BARROW,

Late Secretary to the Earl of Macartney, and Auditor-General of
Public Accounts at the Cape of Good Hope.

THE FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE LONDON QUARTO EDITION.

New-York:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY G. F. HOPKINS, AT WASHINGTON'S

HEAD, NO. 118 PEARL-STREET,

PUBLIC LIBRARY 161533

ASTOR, LENOX AND

TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1899.

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