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South Africa, compiled from all the available official authorities in the Surveyor General & Royal Engineer's Offices, Cape of Good Hope & numerous contributions by … most respectfully dedicated to His Excellency, Sir George Grey, K.C.B., by Henry Hall, R.E.D. Engraved and printed by J.A. Crew, 8 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town. Size: 82 x 70 cm. Title and legend in English and Afrikaans; printed; colour.
Henry Hall's 1857 map of South Africa of 1857 was one of the first maps (and the first locally printed map by a resident South African cartographer,) to depict aspects of Livingstone's route along the Zambesi to Loanda on the West Coast. The map shows the "Great Falls" (Victoria Falls), which Livingstone saw for the time in 1855, and the geographical position of the lower Zambesi along which he travelled to Quelimane in Mozambique. Hall's map also includes the newly-found Boer republics of the Orange Free State (founded 1854) and the Transvaal (founded 1852), as well as the routes of some mid-19th century explorers into the vast area north of 20° South. On his map, Hall acknowledges the contributions of, amongst others, the surveyor Robert Moffat Junior, and David Livingstone. Moffat was the brother-in-law of Livingstone and presumably acted as conduit to channel information about the travels of the latter to Hall. Henry Hall(, who published various maps of southern Africa,) was at that time attached to the Royal Engineer Department in Cape Town.
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