Excerpt from The Twins of Table Mountain: And Other Stories In the thick darkness that clothed the moun tain that night, the human figure would have been lost, or confounded with the outlines of outlying bowlders, which at such times took upon themselves the vague semblance of men and animals. Hence the voices In the follow ing colloquy seemed the more grotesque and incongruous from being the apparent expres sion Of an upright monolith, ten feet high, on the right, and another mass of granite, that, reclining, peeped over the verge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.