mz TRAVELS IN 
When v/e had dried ourfelvcs thoroughly, 
we ftruck the tent ; and dcfcending on the fouth- 
cad fide of the Table mountain, I made my 
way through the thorns and buflies to the 
Falfe-Lion's head ; for fuch is the name of a 
mountaia unfortunately celebrated by fome 
Chip wrecks, and very juftly dreaded by ma- 
riners. To underftand this, it muft be recol- 
lected that, as I have already feveral times ob- 
ferved, there is another mountain called the 
Lion's-head, which is aland- mark to pilots com- 
ing from Europe to the Cape. The falfe head 
^akes its name from the refemblanee it has to 
the real head, though it is not fo high 5 and 
this conformity is fo much the more dangerous, 
as, near this mountain, there is another, which^ 
terminating in a flat like the liable, reprefents, 
when feen from a diftance at fea, the wefterii 
face of the latter. In foggy weather, if the 
pilot, deceived by this refemblance, makes 
towards the land, thinking to enter the bay of 
the Cape, he is loft, as his vefTel is fare to be 
ftranded on the fand- banks of the fhore. There 
is, however, a fure and infallible mark to dif- 
tinguldi them, which I think it my duty to 
point out. The Liaa'd-head is totally infulated 
