 | Sir John Barrow - 1806 - 412 pages
...out of the plain, and fall in with the front a little higher than midway from the base. These, with the division of the front, by two great chasms, into...make in fact, with the Table, but one mountain. The VOL. n. o depredations of time and the force of torrents having carried away the looser and less compact,... | |
 | James Johnson - 1807 - 430 pages
...front, is still bolder, and has one point higher by several feet. The west side, along the sea shore, is rent into deep chasms, and worn away into a number...the peninsula. The two wings of the front, one the Dec//'*' Mountain, and the other the Lion's Head, make, in fact, with the Table, but one mountain.... | |
 | 1829 - 510 pages
...pyramidal masses. To the southward, the mountain descends in terraces, of which the lowest communicates with the chain that extends the whole length of the peninsula. The two wings of the front, namely, the Devil's Hill, and the Lion's Head, make with the Table but one mountain ; for though the... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 580 pages
...conical hill. To the southward Table Mountain descends in terraces, of which the lowest communicates with the chain that extends the whole length of the peninsula. The ascent of the mountain is very steep and difficult, on account of the loose stones which roll away... | |
 | 1837 - 260 pages
...right angles to the front, is still bolder, and has one point, higher by several feet. The west side is rent into deep chasms, and worn away into a number...lowest of which communicates by gorges with the chain which extends the whole length of the peninsula. The two wings of the front, one the Devil's Mountain,... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...right angles to the front, is still bolder, and has one point, higher by several feet. The west side is rent into deep chasms, and worn away into a number...lowest of which communicates by gorges ,with the chain which extends the whole length of the peninsula. The two wings of the front, one the Devil's Mountain,... | |
 | Julius Berncastle - 1850 - 340 pages
...placed on a high conical hill. To the southward, Table Mountain descends in terraces which communicate with the chain that extends the whole length of the peninsula. The view from the sumrait is very wide and picturesque : it extends over the ocean to seventy miles. The... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1819 - 776 pages
...pyramidal masses. To the southward the mountain descends in terraces, of which the lowest communicates with the chain that extends the whole length of the peninsula. The two wines of the front, namely, the Devil's Hill, and the Lion's Head, make with the Table but one mountain... | |
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The east side, which runs off at right angles to the front, is still bolder, and has one point higher by several feet. The west side, along the sea-shore, is rent into deep chasms, and worn away into a number of pointed masses. In advancing to the southward... 