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side, forms Joostenberg in the south of the Malmesbury 

 division ; Klapmuts Hill, on the same line of strike, is 

 a similar faulted outlier north-west of Simon's Berg. 



To the east of the Peninsula the present coast line 

 passes somewhat irregularly through the marginal part 

 of the folded belt, for although the Table Mountain 

 sandstone of the south coast is more folded than in the 

 Peninsula of Piquetberg, yet the plications are fewer 

 and much less abrupt than farther inland. The shore 

 at Cape Hangklip, Hermanus, Danger Point and 

 Agulhas, as well as at many intermediate points, is cut 

 out of the slightly bent sandstones. East of Agulhas 

 the coast trends to the north of east and cuts across 

 the folded belt slantingwise, and the sandstones of Capes 

 St. Blaize, St. Francis and Kecife are highly inclined, 

 for they lie well within the folded belt. There is no 

 direct evidence of the nature of the rocks under the sea- 

 floor, but it is probable that the Table Mountain sand- 

 stone is continued in a slightly bent condition some dis- 

 tance towards the edge of the Agulbas bank. The 

 condition of the sandstone off the south-east coast is of 

 course quite unknown, but from the close analogy be- 

 tween the structure of Pondoland and Natal, and that 

 of Van Rhyn's Dorp, we may suppose that the Table 

 Mountain series extends in a bent condition east of Port 

 Elizabeth and that the strike turns round towards the 

 north-east. 



In the west the first (see Fig. 8) pronounced folds met 

 with form the sandstone mountains on the left side of 

 the Olifant's River Valley, where the sandstone is thrown 

 into gentle anticlines trending north-north-west. The 



