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the chasm deep. At last I crept over it very 

 slowly on my hands and knees, and it was with 

 difficulty I reached the land. As I sat panting 

 on the grass, looking towards the dark old pile, 

 I vowed that the walls of "Dunluce Castle" 

 should never again hold me. I was most likely 

 stricken with a fairy talisman. 



The " Giant's Causeway" is two miles from 

 Bushfoot, where the stranger may spend a few 

 pleasant days with a kind friend, amidst rocks 

 and caves, glens and tremendous cliffs, cause- 

 ways, chasms, and pillars of wondrous height. 

 These rows of pillars stand up the face of the 

 cliff, which is B60 feet high, from the base of 

 which three broad causeways extend, of honey- 

 comb shape, nine hundred feet into the sea. 

 The pillars of these low causeways are generally 

 six, seven, and many three and nine-sided, and 

 as even as if they had been cut with a chisel ; 

 they rest one upon another in joints, the top 

 one round to fit into the one beneath like a 

 socket, and the pillars are so closely packed, 

 that you can hardly get the point of a knife 

 between them. There are other pillars in the 

 face of the cliffs, called the Giant's Loom, 

 the Giant's Chair, the Giant's Organ, and 



