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there perforated by round, heavy-browed arches, and cast the 
morning shadows inland athwart the cavern-hollowed preci- 
pices behind. The never-ceasing echoes reply, in long and 
gloomy caves, to the wild tones of the sea. Here a bluff 
promontory projects into the deep, green water, and the white 
foam, in times of tempest, dashes up a hundred feet against 
its face. There a narrow strip of vegetation, spangled with 
wild flowers, intervenes between the beach and the foot of the 
cliffs that sweep along the bottom of some semicircular bay ; 
but we see, from the rounded caves by which they are stud- 
ded, and the polish which has blunted their lower angularities, 
that at some early period the breakers must have dashed for 
ages against their bases. ‘The Gaylet Pot, a place of inter- 
est, from its very striking appearance, to more than geologists, 
is connected with one of the deep-sea promontories. We 
see an oblong hollow in the centre of a corn-field, that borders 
on the cliffs. It deepens as we approach it, and on reaching 
the edge we find ourselves standing on the verge of a precipice 
about a hundred and fifty feet in depth, and see the waves 
dashing along the bottom. On descending by a somewhat 
precarious path, we find that a long, tunnel-like cavern com- 
municates with the sea,and mark, through the deep gloom of 
the passage, the sunlight playing beyond; and now and then 
a white sail passing the opening, as if flitting across the field 
of a telescope. The Gaylet Pot seems originally to have 
been merely a deep, straight cave, hollowed in the line of a 
fault by the waves ; and it owes evidently its present appear- 
ance to the falling in of the roof for about a hundred yards, 
at its inner extremity. 
We pass from the conglomerate to the middle and upper 
beds of the lower formation, and find scenery of a different 
character in the districts in which they prevail. The aspect is 
