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AMONG THE ISLANDS. 
tliat a ship can almost range np alongside them. 
The rough grey granite and bare basaltic cliffs of 
which' they are composed, show them to be only the 
rugged peaks of submerged mountain-masses, which 
have been rent in some great convulsion of nature 
from the peninsula which stretches into the sea 
from the mainland. You gaze upward and see the 
weird fantastic outline which some of their torn and 
riven peaks present. In fact, they have assumed 
such peculiar forms as to have suggested to navi- 
gators characteristic names. Here, for example, 
stands out the fretted, crumbling towers of one 
called ‘‘ Windsor Castle ; there froAvns a noble 
rock-ruin, the “ Monastery ; ” and here again, 
mounting to the skies, is “ Abbey Peak.’' 
I was reading the other day some travels, by an 
old author, in Mongolia, and was struck by the 
suggestive names which the Tartars have seized 
upon to designate the remarkable features of some of 
their mountain peaks ; where, instead of “ AVindsor 
Castle” we have the Five-ugly-Devils,” and instead 
of “ Abbey Peak ” the ‘‘ Five-horses’-heads.” 
