Table Mountain, which makes the most prominent object at the Cape of
Good Hope, though not the southernmost point, is 3,816 feet high. It
has a flat summit of great extent, and from that peculiarity in its
formation it has its name. It is seen in clear weather fifty or sixty
miles distant. You would think it a burial-place of kings, having
something stately in appearance, as though it were a mausoleum erected
by human art, like the pyramids built by successive generations. We
sailed away from it in the latter part of an afternoon, reflecting that
we had looked upon the last object connected with the continents of the
other hemisphere.
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