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beauty, harmony, and regularity, and a ftriking 

 fenfe of the richnefs, power, art, and fine tafte, 

 that Gould form fuch terreftrial heavens : but, 

 . O ! when I had launched a little way into the 

 ocean, and taken a full view of this moft amaz- 

 ing and ftupendous work of nature, all the fehfa- 

 tions produced by temples and palaces, the 

 works of art, were like fhadows compared with 

 real fubftances. The ftupendous greatnefs of 

 the rocks ftrikes the beholder with chill horror, 

 and amazement, never felt before. While a ftran- 

 ger is near them, he fears that fome protuberant 

 maffes of the rock will give way and wreck his 

 veffel, and drown the prefumptuous fpedator. 

 It is neceflary to keep a quarter of a mile's dif- 

 tance at leaft, to make any judgment of the 

 height of the cliffs* In fome places it is near per- 

 pendicular -, in others overhanging -, in others 

 there are rows of fhelves, or lodgments, for the 

 birds called Puffins and Razor-hirds^ where they fit 

 •thick, in rows, tho' hardly diftind to be feen fepa- 

 rately, but their motion difcovers them. Incertain 

 places high intheciilF, aswellas underwater- mark, 

 you fee great chafms anddeep caverns, that feem to 

 enter far into the rock. Here and there are chiyf- 



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