Plan of Cape Town and environs lithographed for G[eorge] Greig's Cape of Good Hope Directory & Almanac

Block plan of Cape Town, showing part of Table Bay, streets and buildings with a key to 30 of the buildings depicted on the map, inter alia, hospitals, the Slave Lodge and the Menagerie on Orange Street, the Public Offices (in the old Slave Lodge building in Adderley Street), "Tot Nut van het Algemeen" school (in the building previously occupied by the Merchant Seaman's Hospital), South African College, the prison, police station, army barracks, churches and chapels. Description 2 bar scales on map, given in "Furlongs" and "English mile[s]" [= 2 inches], and "English yards" [ca. 1 inch to 220 yards]. Description Additional key indicates the location of several cemeteries and other features viz. St Andrew's Church burial place, Mr Collison's premises, the Lutheran burial place, extension to Somerset Hospital, the Reformed Church burial place, Mr Meyer's property and the Episcopal Church burial place. With Inset map: "Table Mountain from Table Bay [showing] A. Devil's Mountain; B. Table Mountain; C. Lion's Head; D. Lion's Rump." Subject Africa > Maps > 19th century Subject Cape Town (South Africa) > Maps > 20th century Coverage Scale not determined

Day, William, 1797-1845. and Haghe, Louis, 1806-1885

1848

2022

Lithographed for G. Greig's Cape of Good Hope Directory & Almanac

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