g Q Mr. Mills’s Ohfervations on 
inclined. Incumbent on thefe are other pillars, lying nearly 
horizontal, and having a rude face of lava to the wefhvard. 
At high-water this rock is inacceffible without a boat ; but at 
low water it may be eafily got at, by ftepping from one tum- 
bler to another ; and on the north fide it is not difficult to climb 
to the top. The bottom of the glen is covered with large tum- 
blers of lava the whole way down to the rock, and prefents 
the rudeft fcene imaginable. 
-Oppofite Ardlun Head, on the north fide of Loch Leven, is 
Ben Vawruch, an high promontory, whofe ftrata are in Hori- 
zontal beds ; and the hill being of a circular figure gives it the 
appearance of having feveral terraces, with a kind of cattle or 
cairn on the top. 
The columnar pillars at Ardlun are more or lei s regular for 
an extent of near a mile and an half ; and all the projecting 
points of Loch Leven, as far as the eye could reach., appeared 
to be compofed of lava. 
Amongft the rude lava, which forms the bafis below high- 
water mark, are nodules of cryftal and agate, adhering in 
fmall lumps to the rocks ; but, being blackened by the watlnng 
of the fea, are not to be difcovered without a very nice fearch. 
Our boatmen informed us, that higher up the Loch there is a 
bed of coal. This we wifhed to fee ; but, as they alfo told us, 
that the weather, which had for fome days paft been very tem- 
peftuous, was now favourable for landing on Staffa, we deter- 
mined to avail ourfelves of the opportunity, and got into the 
boat, highly pleafed with what we had feen ; and for which 
pleafure we were indebted to the hint in Dr. Johnson’s Tour 
to the Hebrides. _ ~ 
We landed without difficulty on the eaftern fide of Staffa, 
and on an eminence, near the center of the illand, I obferved 
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