M&D Duck. Cape Town

[Mark Sacha]

Of possible interest to the geographically minded, here's a 1785 map of
Cape Town:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Cape_Town_1785.jpg

Very much a colonial grid. The green rectangular plots stretching from the
middle down to the bottom of the image are the V.O.C. gardens (still
there). Malay quarter, or Bo-Kaap, mentioned on p.82 - 'a protruded tongue
of little streets askew to the Dutch grid' - is in the general vicinity of
the two plots in red at upper left, but I don't think it's reflected in the
plan. On the map, off the map.

Modern city has retained a lot of the original arrangement:

https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-33.927587,18.421798&spn=0.014635,0.033023&t=h&z=16
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