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the planes of cooling are nearly horizontal, so the columns 

 arising from the gradual shrinkage are vertical, and the great 

 regularity and exactness of the columns may have aiisen from 

 the particular bed having been of very varied composition. 



Never was professor more favoured with illustrations than 

 Mr. Traill, for the different points of his. paper lay in the land- 

 scape around and in the causeway spread out beneath. The 

 walk was then resumed to Pleaskin, the different points of 

 vantage being duly surmounted and the wild but enchanting 

 views on either hand fully appreciated. Now a whin dyke was 

 examined running out beyond the softer rock and making a 

 sharp headland into the sea ; then the "chimney tops" were 

 surveyed and Port-na-Spaniagh looked down into, where the 

 rocks were wreathed with the foam of the heavy breakers. 

 Here it was that the Gerona, a Spanish galleon, one of the 

 Invincible Armada, commanded by Alonza da Leyva, and 

 containing 300 of the sons of Castilian nobles, was wrecked. 

 They were returning from the Rata, a magnificent ship that 

 had been wrecked on the West Coast, and had safely passed 

 Magilligan and Dunluce, but their unwieldy ship, which was 

 principally impelled by oars, was unable to stem the mighty 

 waves and was driven ashore, and 



The cruel rocks they gored her side 

 Like the horns of an angry bull. 



All on board met a watery grave. Some of the cannon were 

 recovered and mounted on Dunluce Castle, and two of the iron 

 chests which contained the gold and silver for the payment of 

 the Armada are now in Glenarm Castle. 



Each break in the headland is called a port, that at the 

 Spepherd's Path is called Port-na-f hir (noffer), the port of the 

 man — Fin MacCumhal. The next is Port Madadh Rhuadh, 

 the foxes' port ; then comes Port-na-Spaniagh, where the 

 Spanish galleon was lost ; next to that is Port-na-Calye, the old 

 woman's harbour ; then Port-na-Brock, the badgers' port, just 

 under the shadow of the mighty Plaisg-cinn, the goats' promon- 

 tory, the highest of all these headlands (400 feet), and the one 



