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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 
THE OLD MAN OF HOY. 1 
REV. S. J. DOUGLASS. 
Beside the Pentland Firth dwells the tallest man on earth, 
With his head quite bare to the sky ; 
No roof can shelter him of towering castle grim, — 
St. Peter's is a chapel in his eye. 
This Old Man of Hoy was ne'er a little boy. 
But always a giant grown ; 
1. •>;'«* Whether the sense, or nonsense of " The Old Man of Hoy " Is 
worth a thought, is for you to say. If it is anything, it is a historico-geological sketch, suggested 
Toy Sir Walter Scott's and various travelers' descriptions of the rock, and especially by Mr. Geike'S 
recent interesting paper upon it.— S. J. D. 
