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the Colonists are extravagantly fond of it in all its varieties, 
it never enters into their ordinary bill of fare. 
** After a fatiguing walk of about three hours, we arrived 
at the glen which terminates in the Baie du Cap, and through 
which flows the river that forms the Grand Cascade. All 
along the rocky channel of this river we remarked regular 
and beautiful specimens of columnar trap, sometimes fluting the 
mural cliffs, at others forming a tesselated pavement at their 
base. Half a mile before we arrived at the bottom of the bay, 
our conductor led us a short way aside, in order to show us a 
remarkable natural curiosity. It is a cavern in the face of a 
perpendicular rock, or rather hill, about six yards in depth, 
and regularly vaulted over by an arch, the span of which is 
equal at least to twenty yards. The arch is formed by the 
ends of small basaltic columns, arranged with much symmetry, 
and over the front of the cavern you see the shafts of these 
columns diverging as they ascend, according to the strictest 
rules of architecture. A stream of water, which pours down 
from the top of the precipice, is received into a deep basin 
directly in front of the cavern, whence it silently glides down 
to the river through a grove of Banana and Clove trees. It 
was impossible to view this natural recess without forming 
visionary plans of embellishment, such as would render ita 
delightful retreat from the sun, which at this moment darted 
his rays with meridian ardour. After breathing for a few 
minutes the cool atmosphere of the cavern, we set off again 
and arrived shortly thereafter at a precipice which we were 
obliged to scale, by the aid of a ladder, not less than twelve 
yards long. ‘This undertaking had a nervous effect on mote 
than one member of our party; but we accomplished it with- 
out any accident, and arrived, in about a quarter of an hour, 
at the residence of Mr. Blancard, where we were wel 
with the same cordiality as at Chamarel's. 
* Blancard's plantation is the first we come to on entering 
the quarter of the Savanne. This district commences af w 
Baie du Cap, and thence stretches along the coast as far 35 
the Riviére du Poste. The bay is nothing but a small creek, 
as indeed all the bays in this island are, where a few coasting 
