BASALTIC WONDEKS. 
gigantic columns lies a wild waste of natural 
enormous size, which, in the course of success^ 
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have been tumbled down from their foundations by'^^i:^ 
or some more powerful operations of nature. 'Thf* ■ 
sive bodies have occasionally withstood the shoch f 
fall, and often lie in groupcs, and clumps :;f 7 
sembling artificial ruins. 
and forming a 
striking landscape. 
Many of these pillars lie to the east 
very 
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in the vety ^ fV' 
of the bay, at the distance of about one-thiro m j/ 
from the causeway. There the earth has evident ) 
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irom 11115 caiLii iiiio - .-t’ 
away from them upon the .strand, and exhibits a ''"'jicv 
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ous arrangement of pentagonal columns, in a P‘-‘rp'^‘^,i;i' 
jrosilion, apparently supporting a cliff of difiereiit pT 
earth, clay, rock, &c. to the height of a hundred . 
feet. Some of these columns are from thiriy to jj/' 
high, from the top of the sloping bank hen.eau’^^|,^v 
and beinsr longer in the middle of the 
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shortening tat either of tlie sides, have obtained tb‘^ ' 
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Intion of o/x^ans, I'rom a rude likcne.ss in this W 
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the exterior or frontal tubes of that instrument, -t 
are tew broken pieces on the strand, near this 
of columns, it is probable tlnit the cutsidc range, 'd 
tally.i‘Vl 
aj'pears, is in reality the original exterior line 
.sea ; hut how far these columns cxtcnil intern.- . . 
b<AVcls of the inenrnbeut cblf is unknown. _ ^ 
substance, indeed, of that part of the clilf whid> . 
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tn a point, between the two bays on the east ^ 
tlie canseway, seems composed ot similar mate"y J 
besides the many pieces wLidi are seen on the ''„]ylf^; 
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dilf, as it winds to the bottom of the bays, pd''- 
the eastern side, there is, at the very point of 
just above thenairow and high.e.st part ot the v'L 
long collection of them, the heads or sumnnt* f'i jj 
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just appearing without the sloping bank, uWb‘' .j^,;i)'’,f| 
tbtit tlioy lie in a sloping position, and about had 
tween tlie ])cri)cndicular and the horizonttil. 
these columns are likewise of mixed .surfaces, ti 
coticare; and they evidently appear to have l’'-T”||r,t'p 
from their origliu'il upright position, to the i 
oblique one tliey liave now assumed, by the 
faliing of the clilf. 
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