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Strange to say, he was notkilled, nor materially hurt; 

 and his companions having procured ropes from the 

 neighhouring Lighthouse got him out, frightened^ and 

 it may he oharitahly hoped; somewhat instructed by 

 the adventure. Whether the name of Keefe's, Keeve's 

 or Cave's Hole, as it it variously written, was derived 

 from this involuntary explorer, I could not learn. 



The sea-clifFs all about this part are highly pictu- 

 resque and romantic. The strata of stone are quite 

 horizontal, resembling courses of masonry, and the 

 action of the waves and weather in the lapse of ages 

 has worn away the softer portions, producing a suc- 

 cession of caverns, supported by uncouth pillars, with 

 projecting groins and buttresses. Sometimes these 

 caves run into the solid land ; at others they open out 

 again upon the sea at a little distance, making long- 

 corridors, or short series of arched vaults, and, occa- 

 sionally, as in the example of Keeve's Hole just 

 described, the yielding of the roof makes a skylight 

 in the interior ; so that the various effects of the light 

 struggling, with the gloom in these caves are the most 

 picturesque imaginable. 



The sense of grandeur too is greatly augmented by 

 the perpetual moaning and roaring of the sea, which 

 breaks upon the foot of the rooks, and- as it rolls in- 

 ward reverberates from the interior;— a sound indefi- 

 nitely prolonged along the sinuous coast. 



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A slender thread of water falling from the top of 



