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FROM SURATT TO ENGLAND [REL. XIX
three quarters as high as Charles Mount, rather lesse
[about 1700 ft.].
Now because theis places are often spoken of in theis
voyages, I have sett downe the prospect of them from the
Shipp as neere as I can remember in the figure on the
other side1, vizi.,
[Mundy's description of Illustration No. 26.]
A. The Topp of the great hill called the Table.
B. The goeing upp thereto betwene a monstrous Clefte or
openinge.
C. A prettie brooke which cometh from the said openinge
and runneth by the Tent.
D. The Tent where the sicke men ly ashoare.
E. James his Mounte.
F. The Sugar loafe.
G. The Valley or plaine under the Hill.
H. Charles his Mounte, being certaine Rocks on the Topp
of a Hill resemblinge a Castle afarr off.
I. The place where our shipp rode, called Table bay and
by some Saldania Bay.
K. The Buttresses or supporters under the Table beinge
of the Nature of Charles his Mounte, seemeing
artificiall.
The distances and heights not heere to be regarded,
it beinge only a superficial! prospect thereof expressed
as aforesaid.
Royal Exchange, and Andrew Shilling, Captain of the Royal Anne
landed at the Cape and left letters there. See Cal. State Papers, E.I.,
1618—1621. The two peaks did not long retain their English designa-
tion. Mundy is mistaken with regard to the height of the Devil's
Peak which is higher than the Lion's Head.
1 See Illustration No. 26.
FROM SURATT TO ENGLAND [REL. XIX
three quarters as high as Charles Mount, rather lesse
[about 1700 ft.].
Now because theis places are often spoken of in theis
voyages, I have sett downe the prospect of them from the
Shipp as neere as I can remember in the figure on the
other side1, vizi.,
[Mundy's description of Illustration No. 26.]
A. The Topp of the great hill called the Table.
B. The goeing upp thereto betwene a monstrous Clefte or
openinge.
C. A prettie brooke which cometh from the said openinge
and runneth by the Tent.
D. The Tent where the sicke men ly ashoare.
E. James his Mounte.
F. The Sugar loafe.
G. The Valley or plaine under the Hill.
H. Charles his Mounte, being certaine Rocks on the Topp
of a Hill resemblinge a Castle afarr off.
I. The place where our shipp rode, called Table bay and
by some Saldania Bay.
K. The Buttresses or supporters under the Table beinge
of the Nature of Charles his Mounte, seemeing
artificiall.
The distances and heights not heere to be regarded,
it beinge only a superficial! prospect thereof expressed
as aforesaid.
Royal Exchange, and Andrew Shilling, Captain of the Royal Anne
landed at the Cape and left letters there. See Cal. State Papers, E.I.,
1618—1621. The two peaks did not long retain their English designa-
tion. Mundy is mistaken with regard to the height of the Devil's
Peak which is higher than the Lion's Head.
1 See Illustration No. 26.