86 ^RAVELS IN 
fine order which Kolben has made the fubjeft 
of a childifh and ridiculous tale. When the 
Iky is pure and ferene, the Piquet Mountains^ 
which are thirty leagues diftant, may be feea 
from the top of the Table Mountain : not- 
withftanding this diftance, they feem to fur-* 
pafs the latter in height. 
When people who for the firft time vifit this 
mountain, are engaged in the hollow filTure 
of which I have fpoken, they think them- 
felves attacked by a fhower of rain : though 
the weather be fine, it really rains to them# 
This proceeds from the particles of water, 
which, dropping continually from the rocks 
above, and falling upon thofe below, are 
broken by their fall, and converted into a 
kind of rain, which becomes the finer the 
more one approaches the bottom of the 
mountain. This rain is always more abun- 
dant in the morning than at any other time 
of the day. The caufe of this may be eafily 
explained by the coolnefs and dews of the 
night. 
In this hollow, at the diftance of about 
one-third of its height from the top, there is 
a beautiful cafcade, where the water falls over 
-] a vgry 
