WHITENS JOURNAL OF A 
eaft ; which generally blows with great violence, and fome- 
times continues a day or more, but in common is of fhort 
duration. On the firft appearance of this cloud, the fhips 
in Table Bay begin to prepare for it, by ftriking yards and 
top-mafts, and making every thing as fnug as pofTible. 
A little to the weft ward of the Table Land, divided by 
a fmall valley, ftands, on the right hand fide of Table Bay, 
a round hill, called the Sugar Loaf ; and by many the Lion's 
Head, as there is a continuance from it contiguous to the 
fea, called the Lion's Rump ; and when you take a general 
view of the whole, it very much refembles that animal 
with his head ere£t. The Sugar Loaf or Lion's Head, and 
the Lion's Rump, have each a flag-ftaff on them, by which 
the approach of fhips is made known to the governor, par- 
ticularizing their number, nation, and the quarter from 
which they come. To the eaftward, feparated by a fmall 
chafm from the Table Land, ftands Charles's Mount, well 
known by the appellation of the Devil's Tower ; and fo 
called from the violent gufts of wind fuppofed to iffue from 
it, when it partakes of the cap that covers the Table Land ; 
though thefe gufts are nothing more than a degree of force 
the wind acquires in coming through the chafm. When 
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