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TABLE MOUNTAIN. 
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where there is a fine view of Camps Bay, and the southern Atlantic 
ocean. 
The atmosphere, during the whole day, continued clear ; not a 
cloud interrupted the prospect ; the heat, however, caused a thin haze 
to rise from the plain, but this intercepted only the lower parts of 
the distant mountains. The spot where we had breakfasted, had 
been appointed as our rendezvous, and as soon as we were all again 
assembled, we commenced our walk to the eastern side. A large 
kind of monkey, with a long greenish-brown fur, [Cercopithecus ur- 
sinus), called Baviaan by the colonists, inhabits this mountain. It 
is an animal which is found in almost every part of southern Africa 
which I have visited, and is met with only in the mountains and 
rocky places. I saw no bird of any kind, and but few insects ; a 
species of butterfly *, which I have never seen but on the tops of the 
highest "mountains, being all that was collected : but the deficiency 
in zoology was compensated by a rich harvest in botany, f 
* Papilio {Hipparchia) muntana. B. P. Hyperbius? Lin. Sys. Nat. ed. Gmel. p. 2285. 
^ Alae omnes supra, et anteriores utrinque, fuscae, area rufa : posteriores subtus canes- 
centes, supra (vix infra) ocellis duobus minutis ; anteriores utrinque ocello bipupillato, 
annulo flavo obsolete circumdato, 
f The following names of a few, out of the great variety of curious plants which grow 
on the summit of Table Mountain, may serve to give some idea of the nature of its vegetable 
productions- 
t-^. Cliffbyiia ruscifolia Dilatris viscosa 
Aulaa pinifolia Leucadcndrwn saligmm P 
Staavia glutinosa Erica empetrifolia 
Stanina radiata Erica spnviosa i 
