Retrospect of Domestic Laterature—Voyages and Travels. 
other, exhibiting a sort of polygon pave- 
ment, somewhat resembling the appear- 
ance of asolid honeycomb. The pillars 
are irregular prisms, of various denomi- 
nations, from three to eight sides; but the 
hexagonal columns are as numerous as 
all the others together, 
“Qn a minute inspection, each pillar 
is found to be separable into several 
joints, whose articulation is neat and 
compact beyoud expression; the convex 
termination of one joint always meeting 
a concave socket in the next; besides 
which, the angles of one frequently shoot 
over those of the other, so that they are 
completely locked together, and can 
rarely be separated without a fracture of 
these parts. 
“The sides of each column are un- 
equal amongst themselves, but the con- 
tiguous sides of adjoining columns are 
always of equal dimensions, so as to 
touch in all their parts, 
“Though the angles be of various 
magnitudes, yet the sum of the cunti- 
guous angles of adjoining pillars, always 
make up four right ones; so that there 
are no void spaces among the basaltes, 
the surface of the Causeway exhibiting 
to view a regular and compact pavement 
of polygon stones. 
“The outside covering is soft, aud of a 
brown colour, being the earthy parts of 
the stone, nearly deprived of its metallic 
principle by the action of the air and of 
the marine acid which it receives from 
the sea. 
“ Having spent afew hours in examining 
the Causeway, ‘we visited a cavern ina 
little bay to the westward, and not far 
from the cottage where we had left our 
chaise, Here the artist will find a grand 
subject for his pencil, which I was pre- 
vented from taking, by a violent and 
dangerous fall in getting into the cavern. 
This subterraneous grotto, into which the 
sea roars with great violence, is certainly 
worth notice; its entrance has been shut 
up (and I have reason to think, unlaw- 
fully) in order to claim from strangers an 
admission-fee.” 
Subjoined to the Joursal, we have a 
collection of “‘ General Remarks,” The 
first division of these 1s appropriated to 
such objects as lay claim to the most 
remote antiquity, particularly the rude 
pillars and croinlechs, supposed to have 
been erected by the first mhabitants of 
Treland. From these Sir Richard Hoare 
proceeds to the Oratories, Chapels, and 
round Towers of a period of time less 
distant: followmg them with other ob- 
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servations on the Stone Crosses, Earth 
Works, and Religious Buildings. In re- 
gard to “ the modern prospect which the 
capital and its provinces present to the 
Stranger in Ireland,’ we cannot but 
confess that Sir Richard Hoare has drawn 
a most distressing picture. In the 
“Conclusion” of his work we heartily 
agree. ‘If we look to the temperature 
of the Irish climate, the fertility of its 
soil, the bays, estuaries, and rivers, with 
which its provinces are intersected; in 
short, if we consider the numerous and 
great advantages which nature has pro- 
fusely lavished upon this Island, although 
we must at present lament the want of 
industry and activity in improving them, 
yet every one must view with secret sa- 
tisfaction the latent riches and succour 
which the mother country may in future 
tines derive from the daughter.” _ 
A work of a different, and to those 
who love adventures, certainly of a more 
striking nature will be found, in “ Travels 
in the Year 1806, from Italy to England, 
through the Tyrol, Styria, Bohemia, Gal- 
licia, Poland, and Livonia; containing 
the Particulars of the Liberation of Mrs. 
Spencer Smith from the Hands of the 
French Police, and of her subsequent 
Mhght through the Countries above men- 
tioned ; effected and written by the Man- 
QUIS DE SALVO. 
Fastidious critics may possibly express 
‘surprise at receiving another quarto from 
the pen of SirnJouN Carr so soon. But 
we can assure our readers, they will find 
a source of curious entertainment in the 
“ Tour through Holland, along the right 
and left Banks ef the Rhine, to the South 
of Germany, made in the Summer and 
Autumn of 1806.” tis inferior to none 
of his former productions, Sir John 
Carr opens it with a confession. It was 
during Lord Lauderdale’s negociation 
that, the war preveuting a regular inter- 
course between this country and Hol- 
Jand, he borrowed @ passport from an 
American friend, and having reached 
Maesland-sluys, on the other side the 
Maes, proceeded in a fast-sailing fishing- 
boat to Rotterdam. he stratagem, he: 
says, if not perfectly blameless, was at 
least an inoffensive one, as he went not 
to investigate the nakedness of the land, 
but to view its natives in their ordinary 
habits, to glide upon their liquid roads, 
to saunter in their green avenues and 
flourishing gardens, and trace the won- 
derful results of that daring and indefa- 
tigable ingenuity, which has raised the 
permanent habitation of man in the 
. 4N oceag, 
