CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
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CHAPTER XI. 
During our former stay at the Cape, -I made many observations on 
the geological structure of its mountains, which, although impor- 
tant, I did not relate in the former part of this work, with the 
view of combining them with others made in our second visit. 
I will now endeavour to detail both nearly in the order in which 
they occurred ; and in so doing shall take a general view of the 
geological appearances that are displayed by the mountains most 
accessible to a passing visitor at the Cape of Good Hope. 
“ The three hills which terminate the peninsula (at the Cape) on 
the north are, the Table Mountain, in the middle ; the Lion’s Head, 
sometimes called the Sugar Loaf, on the west side ; and the Devil’s 
Peak, on the east. The Lion’s Head, which is about 2100 feet 
high, is separated from the Table Mountain by a valley that descends 
to the depth of fifteen hundred or two thousand feet below the 
summit of the Table Mountain, which is itself 3582 feet above the 
level of the sea. On the west of the Lion’s Head, the ground, after 
falling, rises again, forming an inconsiderable elevation, known by 
the name of the Lion’s Rump, from which the ground descends 
gradually to the sea. The amphitheatre formed by these three 
mountains, is about five or six miles in diameter, in the centre of 
which is placed Cape Town.”* 
The walk which best exhibits many of the different facts visible 
in these mountains, and which I am about to describe, lies through a 
large chasm, called a Kloof, between Table Mountain and Lion’s Head. 
* Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinurgh, vol. vii. p. 271- 
