M&D Duck. Cape Town

[Mark Sacha]

Another, from 1750:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/1750_Bellin_Map_of_Cape_Town%2C_South_Africa_-_Geographicus_-_Gundriss-bellin-1750.jpg

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Mark Sacha <msacha1121 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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