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chasm forming the kloof commences. Their appearance here so 
much resembles an immense wall, a part of which has been sud- 
denly thrown down, that his eye necessarily wanders in search 
of its opposite part; and it does not wander in vain. The Lion’s 
Head, similar in structure and appearance, instantly presents itself, 
and forces the belief that at some period it has been continuous 
with the Table Mountain, and that at another they have been vio- 
lently and at once disjoined. 
Passing onwards, I soon reached the summit of the ridge sepa- 
rating the Lion’s Head from Table Mountain, and forming the 
highest part of the road through the kloof, and obtained a mag- 
nificent view of the sea. From this point the road turns suddenly 
round the Lion’s Head, and runs parallel to the Lion’s Rump 
owards the town. In this course it is for some way bounded on 
one side by the granite which forms the base of the Lion’s Head, 
and on the other looks towards the sea, to which there is a rapid 
declivity of some hundred feet. 
Soon after commencing the descent from the ridge, I encoun- 
tered a singular appearance in the wall of granite which limits the 
road on the right hand. It was a large vein or dyke passing through 
the very heart of the rock. Both the granite and the vein were 
much decomposed, and it was difficult at first to determine the 
nature of the latter. I afterwards found it to consist of rounded 
masses of basaltic rock imbedded in a soft yielding matter, resem- 
bling decomposed granite. It has suffered the shift represented by 
No. III. of the Geological Views at the Cape of Good Hope. Near 
the spot where this occurred, an immense cleft in the mountain 
exhibited a stratum of sandstone resting on a shelving surface of 
granite, in an unconformable position and in so even a manner as 
evidently to have been undisturbed since its formation. Both rocks 
were so decomposed as not to afford good specimens, but appeared 
to have no intervening bed between them, and to be distinctly 
separate. 
As I pursued my road, other and equally interesting appearances 
