Caption: The South Prospect of Dixcove Fort Drawn 1727, ye hithermost English fort on the Gold Coast . . . and is subordinate to Cape-Coast. The caption gives geographical features of the area and food provisioning; note the African towns outside of the fort. Smith made his survey for the Royal African Company. see also, other images mariners on this site.

William Smith, Thirty different drafts of Guinea (London, 1727), plate 10.

Smith, William

English

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Africa--Voltaic--Dixcove

"Dix Cove Fort, Gold Coast, 1727", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed April 13, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/567