Dr. Mac Culloch on Staffa. 509 



the more violent efforts of an occasional destroying force. It is my 

 humble task to point out a fact, as a contribution to that mass of 

 accumulating information on which a consolidated fabric may at 

 some future time be erected. Yet the idle spectator or enthusiastic 

 lover of Nature who shall hereafter view this interesting spot, may, 

 ' when he contemplates these grand revolutions, learn to wonder less 

 at the efforts of that power which has hollowed the cave of Fingal, 

 and submerged in the depths of the ocean those columns which 

 seemed destined for eternicy. 



