the amount of fines, and collects their produce. In conſequence of this regulation, pecuniary puniſhments are the only ones inflicted upon thoſe who are able to pay: the reſt he always orders to be whipped.
25th. I employed this day in taking a view of the Table Mountain, which derives its appellation from the horizontal plain which its ſummit preſents when ſeen at a diſtance.
I had frequently to croſs a brook that flows down this mountain. The large ſtones, rounded by friction, that are found on its ſhore, ſhew that in the rainy ſeaſon the water deſcends in torrents.
About half way up the mountain I found the theſium ſtrictum. A little higher up I met with the magnificent umbelliferous plant, called by botaniſts hermas depauperata, the beautiful fern, acroſtichum pectinatum; the bubon galbanum, the reſtio ſimplex, &c.
That portion of the mountain which I had hitherto aſcended, was compoſed of greyiſh freeſtone, very hard, and covered with maſſes of a fine white-coloured quartz, which ſerved as a baſis to ſeveral very cloſe ſtrata of micaceous ſchiſtus.
Having aſcended upwards of 350 toiſes perpendicular height, I arrived at a fiſſure in the ſide of the mountain, which, when ſeen from the town, does not appear to afford a paſſage to the ſum-
mit;
