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188 BASALTIC WONDERS. 
How deeply they are fixed iu the strand, has - , 
been ascertained. 
This grand arrangement extends nearly two 
vards, as it is visible at low water ; but how fat lo' 
uncertain : from its declining appearance, howeveti^^jj ^ 
water, it is jtrobable that it does not reach hen^^ 11 
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w'ater to a distance equal to that which is seen 
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breadth of the principal causeway, which runs .(if J 
1 r . I • t" , > 
continued range of columns, is in general frorn 
*hirty feet : in some parts it may, lor a short tlisi^ 
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nearly forty. From this account are excluded 
coll'’ 
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and scattered pieces of the same kind of - y, 
which arc detached from the sides of the grand (j-i 
as they do not appear to have ever been contigtij^^^ijd 
principal arrangement, although they have been ■- ,j 
has led to 
comprehended in tlie tvidth, which 
and dissimilar representations of this causeways i'l^ 
ferent accounts lliat have been given. Its high^* v 
the narrowest, at the very spot of the 
whence the wliole projects ; and there, for about^^^,jj)i 
pace in length, its width is not more than ^jjnS 
fifteen feet. The columns of this narrow part in'- 
a perjiendicular a little to the westward, and _ ifj 
on their tops, by the unequal height of their jje j 
th s way a gradual ascent is made at the foot ot 
from tliehead of one column to the next above,^ 
of the great causeway, which, at the distaiicji ,jff 
cight6en feet from the cliff, obtains a perpend'^^.jjfiJ, 
tion, and lowering from its general lieigbt, 
between twenty and thirty feet, being for d (' 
hundred feet always above tlie water. 1 he t'd ,|i '•'f 
- diJ; 
columns being, throughout tliis length, nearly ' 
■ ell 
height, from a grand and singular parade, 
walked on, somewhat inclining to the water s 
from die high-water mark, as it is perpetually j],,; u 
the beating surges, on ewry return of the tid<?> 
form lowers considerably, becoming more 
even, so as not to be walked on but with the_ 
At the distance of a hundred and fifty yards ai. j/- 
it tiuTis a little to the east, for the space of t>l , 
■ ■ ■ The 
yards, and then sinks into die sea. __ . 
columns is, with few exceptions, pentagonal, 
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