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a lead of varied vegetation, — the effect of the whole is at once picturesque and iitiposiD^ 

 in an extraordinary decree, I can only afford to notice a few of the most remarkable rock*,, 

 although a faithful dc-cnpliou of the wlioU.* La desirable, aiuee the Chinese rjuarrymen arc 

 proceed jog so rapidly in their work of destruction that it id to be feared thwe grand and 

 singular natural phenomena will ^ in a few years, have been entirely obliterated. 



One of the most FfriLing of the rocks is a connected pile of great bulk and client which 

 stretches from the base of the lull hotuss the beach into [he sea. It is- cleft id * few pla- 

 ces by narrow dark chasms three of which j in particular, divider it into four principal por- 

 tion*. The inner is. a ^reat cuhoidal tiiwa based in the laud, and its sides, bjiiijj very 

 U i,-lkC U !Mr- --..il. il ■ ji-TpMiiJi il.n'ly Cike solid walk Ar %\Y. .m ;k ri-cs nvfa^l may 

 be called a [jecat columnar turret, partially severed from the mass by a deep narrow chasm j 

 &nd traversed from top to totems by deep chain ml* divided by narrow ridjjoi, ojid wiih its sum- 

 mit ascending some yard* above the level of the pile. A. tree vises from the pinnacled sum* 

 mil , -nid the whofc of tho western side of the columnar mass ig reticulated by its root*. 

 The principal of these run down the channel* tu the ground, arid, as they descend, 

 give out numerous lateral branches which closely embrace the rock, following it* sinuosities 

 und entering ibu deft between it ond the main mass- TUo root* are so numerous and ta 

 interlaced that they conceal the ifrcttcr part ol the rock; and, towards the summit, where 

 they converge beneath I he trunk, ouJy fiauie narrow porijojij of the ridges are visible. 

 TJicic differ so lit tie in shcinc and colour from (ho roots, and are so closely united wi Ih them, 

 that, from some poinU of view, the whole appear* aa the solid stole of tliu tree From other 

 point* of view tome of the acicular summits of the turret are free from the net work of root*, 

 mid ol tiers pwmi through it, One of the lon^ nearly horizontal branches, of Hie tree which 

 stretches seaward above the pile is literally covered with air plants save At it* extremity. 

 The second mass of the pile is also cubical, but diilioguiihcd by a bulky awkward looking 

 protuberance* which rises above U towards it edjje :i.iid lea ha to one side, but for which it 

 is impo&dhtc in titid any architectural prototype* Its rounded shapeless edges and partially 

 depressed sides [jive it a farm more rc*cinbliuij a bit or fjinger root limn aEnthiu™ ever 

 shaped Ipv art, The W, aide of the mass above which it rises is Ira versed by a few fur- 

 row* nearly vertical, but dipping a liuio from N. to S. The upper portion, or about two 

 thirds, of the W±l -i l ' is rather more furrowed. The lower portion bu%e* out and is 

 smooth. The furrows incline to the eoulhward, bending more decidedly in that direction 

 as they reach the bunion; portion of the rock, on the upper surface of which they termi- 

 nate. The third portion \.J \l\r m.j>; h smaller (ban the proceed i ri <j ; and its upper surface; 

 slopes seaward. Its sides aro much channeled, The upper portion uf the mm l hern face 

 cl the fourth or external mass slopes curvatcly from the cleft that separates it from the 

 preceedin^ mass till it* lower portion approximates to vertical and dips beneath the 

 flea. Its surface is on oil the three exposed sides an uninterrupted series uf .sharp 

 ridfjes and included furrows which vary in depth and breadth. The depth is from 

 two to five feet Some are broad and deep scnricylindrkaJ concavities — I lie surface? of 

 which are grooved or ilulcd all round. The grooves are continued without interruption, 

 and with all their regularity of form, beneath the level of the sea where they are quite 



