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than we expected, all inconvenience it occasioned soon ab- 

 sorbed in the stupendous grandeur of the scenery that open- 

 ed upon us. From the northern coast of Wagoe, all the way 

 to Eide, we had a continued series of magnificent cliffs, tower- 

 ing in many places, like minerets, to the height of 2000 feet. 

 Here also we saw a series of rocks, which, from the accounts con- 

 tained in Landt, had excited a great degree of curiosity : al- 

 though they do not by any means accord with his description, 

 yet they present some of the wildest and most magnificent ap- 

 pearances possible. Here a part of the coast is separated from 

 the rest, and appears to have formed a barrier or wall in front, 

 the ruins of which now only remain. In one place, where the 

 largest portion stands highly elevated from the water, an im- 

 mense perforation, like a grand portal, presents itself, through 

 which boats of any size may row in safety. The rest of this 

 reef, as it may very properly be considered, presents a string 

 of fantastically shaped rocks, many of them acute pyramids, 

 denominated Drengs in the language of the country, in a line 

 at unequal distances. In a little narrow bay near this, of about 

 three or four hundred yards in depth, there is another wall, 

 somewhat similar, dividing the bay in two ; the extremity of 

 which ranges with the entrance of it. The end towards the 

 sea is highest ; and from this it declines to the other, 

 being ornamented all along with the same kind of pinnacles 

 we formerly admired at Tintholm. In it we also found a na- 

 tural arch, through which we passed in the boat. These walls, 

 I first suspected, might have been the remains of enormous 

 dykes, similar to some which exist on the coast of Antrim ; but 

 on examination, I found no traces to support that conjecture, 

 nor could I discover any probable cause for their separation 



from the adjoining country. 



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