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conneded by inferior gorges. Some of ihefe mafles have 
horizontal fummits ; others peaked or cone-fhaped ; fome 
confift of naked fragments of rock ; others are clothed with 
verdure. This peninfula is connedled with the continent by a 
low flat ifthmus, with few irregularities of furface, except fuch 
as are made by ridges of fand that feem to have been adventi- 
tioufly brought thither by the ftrong fouth-eaft winds from the 
fhores of Falfe Bay, a large arm of the fea enclofed between the 
Cape Promontory and a chain of high mountains on the conti- 
nent to the eaftward of it. 
Falfe Bay, and Table Bay, the one wafhing the foutherny 
and the other the northern, fhore of the ifthmus, are 
the ufual places of refort for fhipping trading to, or calling 
for refrefhments at, the Cape of Good Hope. During the 
fummer feafon, when the fouth-eaft winds are predominant, 
which may be reckoned in general from September till May, 
Table Bay affords the moft fecure Ihelter ; and Simon's Bay, 
a cove or indent on the weftern fhore of Falfe Bay, for the 
refl of the year, v/hen the northerly and north-wefterly winds 
are ftrongeft. In neither of them is there any fort of fecurity 
or convenience for heaving down and repairing fhipping, nor 
do they appear to admit of any contrivance for fuch purpofes 
at a moderate expence. The latitude of Table Bay is 33*^ ^j' 
fouth : longitude 18° 30' eaft. Of Simon's Bay the latitude is 
34° 9' fouth, and longitude 18° 32^ eaft. 
There are alfo two fmall bays on the weft fide of the 
peninfula, one called Hout or Wood Bay, and the other Chap- 
man's 
