TABLE MOUNTAIN. 
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other articles. The richest localities of this part, 
are about Wynberg and Constantia, situated 
ten ortwelve miles from Cape Town. The ground 
around here is thickly planted with oak, fir, 
and vines; the whole landscape, also, is one 
expanse of the most pleasing and beautiful 
vegetation, clothed, as it is, with a variety of 
tints of green ; while, in the more Northerly 
division of Malmesbury, (lying along the coast 
of Saldana Bay, and styled the " granary of 
the Gape,) the fields display the more mellowed 
tones of the ripening corn. 
The Table Mountain is, perhaps, the most 
remarkable feature in the terrane structure of 
this locality. Its tabular surface, (lying 3,582 
feet above the level of the adjacent ocean,) 
extends in a horizontal plane for nearly two 
miles, and contains an area of about ten acres. 
It is flanked on the N".W. and S.E. sides by 
two buttresses of rock, called the Lion's Head, 
2760 feet high, and the Devil's Mountain, 
3315 feet above the level of Table Bay. At 
their bases these are still united, although the 
constant torrents of rain and tempests have 
worn them into three detached masses towards 
the summit. 
The formation of this mountain is very sin- 
gular. The upper face of the rock is interrupted, 
midway downwards, by heavy bold buttresses, 
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