THE giant’s causeway. 
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overwhelming the plantavtoiis of rice, and 
away houses, with whatever came within its 
's calculated that twelve thousand individiials 
( 1 ' The trees and herbage of every description, 
® ’"'hole of the north and west sides of the penin- 
S\ cotnpletely destroyed, with the exception of a 
land near the spot where tire village of 
'C^^tood. 
^’^h'eine misery to which the inhabitants ot die 
island were reduced, was dreadtul to 
d he roads were strewed with dead bodies ; tile 
t'lhggj ' "c roaus were sirewea wiui ucuo iakuc:, i 
almost entirely deserted, and the houses htllen 
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,H ■ peasants wandeivd in all directions in search of 
'ht'i'titgj ° famine became so severe, that one of the 
I lo I®!" the riajah died of hunger. 
violence of the eruption, it will suffice 
J.J drat the cloud of ashes which had been earned 
s' ’ 'ti celerity a.s to produce utter dai'kness, extend- 
, Sfive!. ‘’■^'^hon of the Island of Celebes, two hundred 
j'tli in nautical miles from the seat ot the volcano ; 
'*<1 gu "cct line towards Java, upwards of three htin- 
S’’t'Phical miles. 
‘^LTIC and rocky wonders. 
V The giant’s causew'ay. 
Ciis V , 
bh'‘'hoi?v ‘i^^'^^tttion of basaltic pillars is in the vicinity of 
(J'^l, Or ^ *he county of Antrim, Ireland. The priii- 
jJ^lile ac causeway, (there being several less coiisi- 
'"d til' •'’'■^dered fragments of a similar nature,) con- 
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f p .'’’’'cgular arrangement of many liundrcd thou- 
■' ■>lc'* *^p^tis, formed of a black rode, nearly as hard 
hw greater part of them are of a itcnUigonal 
6,,'’]'.?h closely and compactly situated on their sides, 
t’ol hiiin, ^'^dy distinct from top to bottom, that scarcely 
be introduced between them. These 
ttn unequal height and breadth : several of 
..‘'ta, .. levatpri -a.-iui . of the strand, 
nigular precipice, are of 
twenty feet, which they do not 
ny of the principal arrangement. 
‘it, tli 
‘e«st not 
, .■ visible 
V-i»L oot ot tliK inmending 
