The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

, 3,300126 SOUTH AXP EAST AFRICA.the mountain, wliile the first heights are dotted over with pleasant vilhis and detachedresidences. Eastwards, in the midst of an extensive phiin which was formerly amorass on which the first settlers erected their little stronghold, now stand the lowbuildings of the " Castle," property of the Engli.sh Government and symbolof Britisli s\ipremacy in Austral Africa. Still farther east the bay is skirted hj asuburliaii district which stretches as far as the broad estuary of the tortuous Saltrig. 38.— Cape Town.Bcale 1 : 126,000.-)S°5a' EkI of Gr-eenwlchDepthsYards.64 Feet nndupwards.River.The city is everywhere encircled by fine gardens and jiarks, which penetrateinto the glens of the mountain. In 1887 a beginning was made with asystem of defensive works, which are intended to convert the stronghold of CapeTown into a second Gibraltar.In the hands of its English masters Cape Town has preserved but fewreminiscences of the Dutch epoch. The chief thoroughfare is no longer supple-