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porates, and appears to be reduced to nothing. 
The heavens continue cahn and ferene, with- 
out any interruption ; and the mountain 
alone, for a fliort moment, has a gloomy 
afped, while it is deprived by that veil of 
the cheering prefence of the fun. 
I have fpent whole mornings in examining 
this phenomenon, without being able to com- 
prehend the caufe of It; but afterwards, when 
I frequented the Bay of Falfo, on the oppo- 
fite fide of the mountain, I have often en- 
joyed the pleafure of feeing its commence- 
ment and progrefs. The wind at firfl: an- 
nounces itfelf very feebly, carrying flowly 
along with it a kind of fog, which it feems 
to detach from the furface of the fea. This 
being accumulated, becom.es condenfed by the 
Table Hill towards the fouth, an obftacle 
which oppofes It in its way ; and in order to 
overcome it, gradually rolling over itfelf, it 
rifes by its efforts to the fummit, and dif- 
plays to the town that white cloud which an- 
nounces the wind, which has already blown 
for feveral hours, in the harbour and its 
erivirons, towards the face of the Table 
Hill. 
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