A USTRALASIA ILL USTRA TED. 



billows, with white points of brine, on the cope of the lightning inconstantly shine as 

 piercing the sky from the floor of the sea." 



At such a time the spectator is awed by the savage grandeur of the scene, which 

 is terrible in its sublimity, and conveys an overwhelming sense of the tremendous power 

 of the forces of Nature, and of the relative insignificance of the feeble observer, who 

 staggers under the 

 shock of the fierce 

 wind which comes 

 raging up from the 

 icy South, and feels 

 the very earth be- 

 neath his feet shud- 

 dering as the waves 

 leap at it as if in 

 a frenzy of ungo- 

 vernable passion. 

 Then, too, the re- 

 sounding sea comes 



HE WATERY CAVE. 



up with a rush and a roar 

 through a blow-hole in the 

 cliff, and sends a column of 

 water, crowned with a wreath 

 of snow-white foam, high into 

 the air; and the caves which 

 have been hollowed out of 

 the solid rock, as if by the 

 labour of human hands, are 

 transformed into seething 

 chauldrons ; while the boom 

 of the ocean, the deep diapa- 

 son of the thunder, and the 

 dissonant shrieking and howl- 

 ing of the gale are heard far 

 inland, and people listening 



to the elemental discord in comfort and security by their own firesides, put up a silent 

 prayer for those who are in peril on the sea. But in the halcyon days of summer, 

 when no breath of air is stirring on sea or shore, and the faint ebb and flow of the 



THE GRAND CAVE. 



