124 SUBTERRANEOUS WONDERS, 
siickiiio' ia it, as if lialf immersed. Tlie base, • js 
broken, appears to be composed of nrany beterogi-' 
parts, and much resembles lava. Many or ^the 
stones are of a similar substance with the pillars, 3 
basaltcs, les? beautiful than that of the Giant’s Cause' %i 
Tl>e whole of this »tr 
the colour is a dirty brown, 
dips gradually to the south-east. . j/ 
The thickness of the stratum of lava-like matter 
the pillars, the height of the pillars, and die thicki’^^^j' 
the superincumbent stratum at three ditlerent places 
ward of the mouth of the cave, beginning with die e 
pillar of the 
Banks. 
cave, are described as under by Su‘ 
Feet. 
In. 
Feet. 
In. 
Feet- 
11 
0 
17 
1 
19 
.54 
0 
50 
0 
S5 
61 
6 
51 
1 
5i 
in. 
Stratum below 
Height of pillars 
Stratum above _ - _ - - j.„. 
The stratum above the columns is uniformly the, 
consisting ef numberless small pillars, bending un“ ili^ 
ing m all directions, sometimes so irregularly, 
an inclination to 
but ‘||-v 
breaking into, or di>:turbing the stratum ot large 
stones can only be said to have 
columnar form ; in others more 
whose tops keep every where an uniform line, 
opposite side of the island is a cavern, called - 
scarve, or the Co/moranl's Cave ; here the stratuifl 
the pillars is lifted up very high, and the pillars ai® 
derably less than at the north-west side. BeyoU^’jjiiC 
cuts deep into the island, rendering it not rnorc ^ 
quarter of a mile across. On the sides of this 
cially beyond a little valley, which almost divides 
are tw-o stages of small pillars, with a stratum 
exactly resembling that above, formed of 
little pillars shaken out of their places, and lean'”» v 
directions. Beyond this, the pillars totally ceasC" 
rock is of a dark-brown stone, without regid^ritJ^^yji 
die bay along the south-east end of the island ; p,/ 
which, a disposition to columnar formation is 
lested, extending from the west side, but in an ' 
manner, to the bending pillars first described. 
