VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
this phsenomenon appears in the morning, which is by no 
means fo frequent as in the evening, the failors have a faying, 
as the Devil's Tower is almofl: contiguous to the Table 
Land, that the old gentleman is going to breakfafl: ; if in 
the middle of the day, that he is going to dinner; and if in 
the evening, that the cloth is fpread for fupper. 
The foregoing high lands form a kind of amphitheatre 
about the Table Valley, where the Cape Town ftands. From 
the fhipping the town appears pleafantly fituated, but at the 
fame time fmall ; a deception that arifes from its being built 
in a valley with fuch flupendous mountains diredly behind 
it. On landing, however, you are furprifed, and agreeably 
difappointed, to find it not only extenfive, but well built, 
and in a good ftile ; the ftreets fpacious, and interfering 
each other at right angles with great precilion. This exadt- 
nefs in the formation of the ftreets, when viewed from the 
Table Land, is obferved to be very great. The houfes in ge- 
neral are built of ftone, cemented together with a glutinous 
kind of earth which ferves as mortar, and afterwards neatly 
plaftered, and whitewafhed, with lime. As to their height, 
they do not in common exceed two ftories, on account of 
the violence of the wind, which at fome feafons of the year 
blows 
