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The next place which we visited on the coast of the Bay of 
Fundy, is a cove, which has received the singular appellation of 
Gulliver’s Hole.. This cove is the largest indentation which the 
sea has been able to effect, on the iron-bound coast of the Bay 
of Fundy. It penetrates about three fourths of a mile into the 
land ; and being narrower at its entrance, which is protected by 
massy columns of trap rocks, it affords a secure retreat to the 
small fishing-vessels which frequent these waters, when the wind 
is too violent for them to ride on the unsheltered coast. This 
locality will prove of interest to the mineralogist, on account of a 
curious variety of stilbite, which here occurs incrusting the walls 
of narrow, but deep and perpendicular fissures in the trap. On 
either side of these chasms, the stilbite occurs in compressed 
lamine, projecting horizontally, or at right angles with the rock to 
which they are attached, for the distance of about an inch. 
They are crystalized, at their free extremities, in the form of the 
right rectangular prism, terminated by pyramids, and with nume- 
rous other modifications. The crystals are arranged in a’ very 
irregular manner, crossing and intersecting each other at right 
angles, so as to produce between them cellular interstices of 
various forms. The color of this stilbite is white, with a slight 
tinge of grey; it is glistening and somewhat pearly on cleavage ; 
before the blowpipe it melts easily into a porous glass, without 
color and transparent. Large sheets of it are easily detached 
from the rock, by means of the hammer and chisel, and they 
form fine specimens of a singular variety of this mineral. 
Magnetic iron ore in veins about a foot wide, associated with 
jaspery red iron ore, occurs in the trap rock at this place ; but as 
the veins are exceedingly irregular in their course, and often 
terminate abruptly, little dependence can be placed upon them 
