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son's remark rose to my recollection, " that the 

 Giant's Causeway might be worth seeing, but 

 was not worth going to see." I had erroneously 

 considered its magnitude to be equal to the 

 wonders in its formation : in this, I own, I was 

 disappointed ; but I cannot describe the feelings 

 of admiration excited by the examination of its 

 structure, or the sentiments with which I was 

 inspired, while I exclaimed" Wonderful are 

 the works of God." 



On each side of the Causeway is a basalt 

 range or wall, dipping to the north into the sea. 

 It is a generally received opinion, that it extends 

 in breadth as it thither advances ; but its com- 

 ponent parts are there much broken. One of 

 the peculiarities of basalt is, that its dikes or 

 walls intersect other strata, without causing 

 any alteration in their dip or rise. The greatest 

 breadth of the Causeway, at low water-mark, is 

 between twenty and thirty yards; the length 

 from thence one hundred and twenty \ but to 

 the spot where it penetrates the shore the 

 base of the columns are a foot and a half in 

 diameter, and from twenty to thirty feet in 

 height. 



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The columnar stratification, as seen at Flas- 

 ket, and in various parts of the coast, are in 



