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Strange to say, lie was not killed, nor materially hurt ; 

 and liis companions having procured ropes from the 

 neighbouring lighthouse, got him out, frightened, and, 

 it may be charitably hoped, somewhat instructed by 

 the adventm-e. Whether the name of Keefe^s, Keeve's 

 or Cave's Hole, as it is variously written, was derived 

 from this involuntary explorer, I could not learn. 



The sea-cliffs all about this part are highly pictu- 

 resque and romantic. The strata of stone are quite 

 horizontal, resembling com'ses of masonry ; and the 

 action of the waves and weather in the lapse of ages 

 has worn away the softer portions, producing a suc- 

 cession of caverns, supported by uncouth pillars, with 

 projecting groins and buttresses. Sometimes these 

 caves run into the solid land ; at others they open out 

 again upon the sea at a little distance, making long 

 corridors, or short series of arched vaults, and occa- 

 sionally, as in the example of Keeve's Hole just 

 described, the yielding of the roof makes a skylight 

 in the interior ; so that the various effects of the light 

 struggling wdth the gloom in these caves are the most 

 pictm-esque imaginable. 



The sense of grandem- too is greatly augmented by 

 the perpetual moaning and roaring of the sea, which 

 breaks upon the foot of the rocks, and as it rolls in- 

 ward reverberates from the interior ; — a sound indefi- 

 nitely prolonged along the sinuous coast. 



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AlyiaXw fifydh^ ^pefj-eTai, crixapayeT 54 re ttovtos." 



A slender thread of water falling from the top of 



