MOSSEL See also:

• BAY

BAY  , the name of a See also:

• BAY

bay, See also:

• TOWN

town and See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the Cape See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province, See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa . The bay lies midway between Table Bay (Cape Town) and See also:

• PORT

Port See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth roadstead . Like most of the South See also:

• AFRICAN

African bays it does not afford See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good anchorage . Westward, however, it is sheltered by Cape St Blaize, on which is a lighthouse . The town lies on the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the bay, Cape St Blaize stretching beyond to the S.E . Mossel Bay is 250 M. by See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea and 312 M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail E. by S. of Cape Town . Pop . (1904), 4500 . The port ranks See also:

• FOURTH

fourth in importance among the seaports of the Cape and does a large forwarding See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade . Vessels load and See also:

• DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge by means of lighters . Mossel Bay is a station on the See also:

• DIRECT

direct Cape Town–Port Elizabeth railway . The Mossel Bay division of the province has an See also:

• AREA

area of 707 sq. m., and a See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population (1904) of 10,700, of whom 49 % were whites .