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TRAVELS IN 
of clouds on the fummit of the Table, which 
is vulgarly called \X.% peruke^ as I have already 
faid in my nrfl: Travels. 
This phenomenon I muft here defcribe, but 
in the mod accurate manner, left the effect 
fhould be taken for the caufe, and that which 
belongs to the one aferibed to the other. It 
was preceded by a train of fog, which we faw 
brufliing over the furface of the fea, and which 
advanced towards us, palling over Table-Bay, 
Its approach announced to me a moft dreadful 
tempeft ; but I rejoiced that I was able to be- 
hold and ftudy at this height the progrefs of fo 
beautiful a fpedacle, at the hazard of fome tri- 
fling inconveniences, which could not be put in 
competition with the advantages I was about to 
derive from obfervations, which, no circum- 
fiances perhaps would ever put it in my power 
to repeat, if I fufferedthe prefent opportunity, 
which prefented itfelf fo fortunately, to efcape. 
Without delay, therefore, I pitched my tent 
towards the eaft, and as near as pofTible to that 
part of the mountain, which, already feparated 
from the Table by the progreffive and continual 
crumbling down of fragments from the adion 
of the winds and the rain, is known by the 
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