, CLIFTON HOTWELL. 
not more remarkable for llieir 
'at . . tlifif ' 
297 
height, 
being equally so on both sides the river, the 
places answering on each side for about a 
f bait in a serpentine course. These constitute 
tj) Sj'catest natural curiosities in England. The rock 
blotwell, and on the stirae side, is named St. 
S^trly a chapel dedicated to that saint having been 
y ati,[ i^bt Oil i [5 sunnnil. It is in height three hundred 
' ,?.'^iist ^ rnajestic appearance. It supplies tlie 
■q; tif 5 *bi many curious fossils } the botanist with a va- 
plants ; the antiquary with tlie remains of 
“^be less curious enquirer with a view 
'sji ro(,jj *^adful and surprising precipice. 
l-i| ^ general, when broken up, are of a dusky 
h;N, chocolate colour marble, very hard and close 
sni i"'^''ch, on being struck with a hammer, emits 
Sl'jieigt Pbureous smell. It will bear a polish equal to 
j when sawed Into slabs and po- 
ts'll beantifnllv varies 
sawed 
Uf. - beautifully variegated with veins of white, 
or yellow. - ' - - ■ - 
‘i but yellow. It is often employed for chimney- 
'*2 tl) '’’. principally used tor making lime, for whicii 
not any stone in England so well calculated, 
'C' 4 Uh 1V'^ strong, fine, and white, which ex- 
occasion a great demand for foreign con- 
’ft 
bi the vicinity, labourers are daily employed 
v^Shienf, ‘'ocks with gunpowder, by which process 
tile j) ^ frequently thrown down, and repeatedly 
yiib jf''''*P'ce with a dreadful crash, which, com- 
ijb'le to ..'f ^'^nd report of the explosion, re-echoed 
by the lofty clifts, makes a grand and aw- 
thunder, for which it is frequently 
.1^ ^'Cso It is the opinion of die greater 
iftst -Ti viewed these rocks, that they were 
i';5 "’ere separated by some terrible convulsion 
A brida - 
k' '^‘'tlge of one arch, from rock to rork, over 
been 
'ill t 
, ^ ^ _ in contemplation ; but if tlie 
h 'rill |bese rocks should still be persisted in, the 
\ I "■'''bered impracticable. This is the more to 
*'i tA ’■b'^ duality is to be pro- 
bani-down, or lower down the river, 
t's and cavities of these rocks are found tlKi,=^ 
