ing infulated pyramids hollowed through with lofty arches ; and columns of 
height, the foaming {urges beating round their bafes, are ftriking objects in 
auo°uft fcenery which they afford. Old cattles are frequently remarkable on ^ 
head-lands impending over the fea: and this ftile of coaft continues all the way 
the beach beyond Dungjby-head , commonly called John-a-gr oat’s boufe , that 
the name of a man who long kept the ferry boat, which paffes between ScoW* 
the Orcades. 
