The second level was separated by a perpendicular granite cliff, terminated at the top by an unequal edge at a height of at least 300 feet.

It continued thus for a length of three miles, ending suddenly on the right with a precipice which looked as if cut by the hand of man.

On the left, above the promontory, this irregular and jagged cliff descended by a long slope of conglomerated rocks till it mingled with the ground of the southern point.

On the upper plateau of the coast not a tree appeared.

It was a flat tableland like that above Cape Town at the Cape of Good Hope, but of reduced proportions; at least so it appeared seen from the islet.