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and it is by no means improbable, the laft 

 place of feparation feems to have been at 

 that part near Bangor ferry, for there the 

 channel is at prefent much the narrower!, 

 and at this place is ilill to be ieen a trace 

 of fmall rocks jutting out in a line acrofs 

 the channel. Befides thefe there are alfo 

 other great fplinters of rocks tumbled down, 

 and really appearing as if the fea had con- 

 fumed the foil in which they had originally 

 been bedded, leaving the rocks bare and 

 rugged, and the ftones and broken fhivers 

 in the bottom of the channel, heaped upon 

 one another. 



In the hollows and cavernous inter ftices 

 of thefe fallen and broken rocks, for an 

 hour or two at the beginning of the flood, 

 from the tides flowing in at each end of 

 the flraights, and meeting here, the fea 

 violently boils and fluctuates, making it 

 for that time a dangerous whirlpool. This 

 part of the channel is called Pool Ceris, 



and 



