A F R I C a; 5^ 
I have often been a witnefs to the ravages 
Occafioned by this wind. In the fpace of 
twenty-four hours the beft flocked gardens 
appear as if dug up, and fwept. This wind 
continues from January to April at this ex- 
tremity of Africa, and extends even a great 
way into the country. In the courfe of my 
travels, it has fometimes overturned all my 
carriages ; and no other alternative has been 
left me but to tie them to large bulhes, to 
^prevent them from being thrown topfy- 
turvy. 
At the Cape, this wind is announced by a 
fmall white cloud, which at firft attaches it- 
felf to the fummit of the Table Hill^ oa 
the fide next to the Devil's Hill. The 
air then begins to become cooler ; by and by 
the cloud increafes, and expands till it grows 
fo large that it covers the whole top of the 
mountain : it is then commonly faid that 
the mountain has put on its peruke. The cloud, 
however, advances with a rapid motion, and 
hovers over the city : one would then fay 
that it was about to be inundated and buried 
by a deluge ; but, in proportion as it ap- 
proaches the bottom of the mountain, it eva- 
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