116 PUDDING GYOE. 



it is impossible to leap. We therefore climb the cliff, 

 and pass along the grassy bank on the top. The rocky 

 beds there assume varied appearances ; faults in abun- 

 dance ; here an opening to the sea, there an irregular 

 wall ; until we reach Pudding Gyoe, where the cliffs are 

 steeper, and the sea comes closer in. 



" Pudding Gyoe is a hollow cave, worn into the solid 

 rock by the ceaseless grinding of the sea. The entrance 

 can only be seen when the tide is at low ebb. The water 

 from above percolates through the strata, highly charged 

 with lime, so that, in creeping through the rocks under- 

 neath, it has formed a stalactitic covering, not unlike the 

 entrails of a cow, or cow's puddings, and hence the name 

 of Pudding Gyoe. 



" There is an old tradition of a piper who ventured 

 'too far ben,' and ultimately lost himself; and many 

 people, good people, heard him long long after, playing 

 his pipes in a low hollow sound, some four miles up the 

 country. 



" The beds have hitherto been dipping northerly ; but 

 at a small distance farther on, a range of rocks dips east; 

 then there is a most notorious fault. The strata drop 

 down almost on end, dipping east. You then enter 

 Sandy Bay. 



" On the farther side you come to more fossiliferous 

 rocks. The remains are invariably the same quad- 

 rangular scales, scales of Holoptychius, snouts of Diplo- 

 pterus, teeth, warty bones, and some other large bones." 



Dick resumes the subject of the above ramble along 

 the north-eastern coast on the 29th of April 1845. 



