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confused. Whatever may have been their 
they do not at present appear to have any 
ypposgi^'' '''•th the grand or principal causeway, as to any 
® design or use in its first construction j and as 
Several*' inferred from the figure or position of 
''It ijj at a great distance from the causeway, ex- 
^ *'^elve P^rts similar columns. At the depth of ten 
fo assume a columnar tendency, and forms a 
. 'he pillars of basalt, which stand perpendicular 
^11- presenting in the sharp face of the pro- 
the 
appearance of a magnificent gallery or colo- 
‘ , “I'pcaiaiicc ui ci 
of sixty feet in height. 
This colonade is 
|ji I'ly base of coarse, black, irregular rock, 
tljQy fset thick, abounding in blebs and air-holes ; 
‘Comparatively irregular, it evidently affects a 
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i, tending in many places to run into regular 
^ Iho shooting of salts and many other 
hed *^'”S 3 hasty crystallization. Beneath this 
- ly ^ ' 
'he high, more exactly defined, and emulating 
oif its columns, those of the Giant’s Cause- 
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#!''‘''*n('ft^^’^h>ling the shooting of salts and many other 
5‘c-jm^‘=s during - ' ■ “ ,i • 
tie, 
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'''bicli°''^^'^ range is upborne by a layer of red ochre 
stone, stands a second range of pillars from 
iv The*' “‘I 3 relief to shew it to greater advan- 
if Oiass admirable natural galleries, with the inter- 
hund*-^ .irregular rock, form a perpendicular height 
Protno,^'^‘' seventy feet, from the base of which 
a ‘'‘’'■ered with rock and grass, slopes down 
liA nj- ‘cotisiderable space, so as to give an additional 
V' feet'"° hundred feet, making in all nearly four 
Hich perpendicular elevation, and presenting a 
hitij n beauty and variety of colouring, for ele- 
''i' ^ arrangement, and for tlie extraor- 
'hint, of its objects, cannot, perhaps, be rivalled 
Pron^*" present known. 
V r'han (•'°'’'‘’ry of hVirhead raises its lofty summit 
hundred feet above the level of the sea, 
jhtfh g eastern termination of Ballycastle bay. It 
SiA Vs compact mass of rude columnar stones, 
’''i ^d ^”“ch are extremely gross, many being a 
bffy feet in length. At the base of these 
