VIII. Account of the Structxire of the Table Mountain, and other 

 Parts of the Peninsula of the Cape. Draitm up by Pro- 

 fessor Playfaiu, from Observations made by Captain 

 Basil Hall *, R. N. F. R. S. Edin. 



(Read S\st May 1813.^ 



THE Paper which I have the honour of presenting to the 

 Society, is drawn up from letters written by Captain 

 Hall to some of his friends in this country, after a visit made 

 to the Cape of Good Hope, and an excursion to the Table 

 Mountain, in July last. I have given the description, as much 

 as possible, in his own words, and have only connected parts, 

 which, from the nature of the communications, were necessa- 

 rily disjoined from one another. One of the letters being 

 written to myself, and containing a general view of the whole, 

 has been my guide for arranging the rest. 



Captain Hall intended to have reduced his observations 

 into order, for the purpose of laying them before the Royal 

 Society, which, however, his professional avocations have not 

 left him leisure to accomplish. In the mean time, as they 

 make known a new fact in Geology, and one which, though 

 from analogy, we might suppose that it was somewhere to be 



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• Then Lieutenant. 



