PUFFIN, OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT. 
launched a little way out into the ocean, and 
taken a full view of this most amazing and 
stupendous work of Nature, all the sensations 
produced by Temples and Palaces, the works 
of Art, were like shadows compared with real 
substances. The stupendous greatness of these 
rocks strikes the beholder with chill horror and 
amazement never felt before. While a stranger 
is near them, he fears that some protuberant 
masses of the rock will give way, and Vv'teck 
his vessel, and drown the presumptuous spec- 
tators. It is necessary to keep at a quarter of 
a mile distance at least, to make any judgment 
'of the height of the cliff. In som.e places, it 
is nearly perpendicular ; in others, over-hang- 
ing : in others, there are rows of shelves, or 
lodgmiCnts for the birds ; where they sit thick 
in rows, though hardly distin6l to be seen 
separately,! but their motion discovers them. 
In certain places high in the cliff, as well as 
under high-v^ater mark, you see great chasms, 
and deep caverns, that seem to enter far into 
the rock. Here and there are chrystal streams^ 
and broken ripling waters, issuing forth pretty 
high in the rock. The strata of chalk-stone, 
flints, Sec. divided in some parts, on an almost 
plain 
