It is however less frequented, being twenty-four miles of very heavy road distant from Cape Town, whence almost all necessaries must be procured.

The most sheltered part of False Bay is a recess on the west side, called Simon's Bay.
The Cape of Good Hope, though popularly called, and perhaps pretty generally esteemed so, is not in truth the most southern point of Africa.
The land which projects furthest to the south is a point to the east of it, called by the English Cape Lagullus; a name corrupted from the original Portugueze das Agulhas, which, as well as the French appellation des Aiguilles, is descriptive of its form, and would rightly be translated Needle Cape.

Three eminences, divided by very narrow passes, and appearing in a distant view like three summits of the same mountain, stand at the head of Table Bay .-- They are however of different heights, by which difference, as well as by that of their shape, they may be distinguished.

Table Mountain is so called from its appearance, as it terminates in a flat horizontal surface, from which the face of the rock descends almost perpendicularly.

This mountain rises to about 3567 feet above the level of the sea.