A Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, And Civil And Religious Institutions
A Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, And Civil And Religious Institutions
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
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Of these the most perfect and striking is Pleaskin. " Its summit," to use the words of the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, " is covered with a thin grassy sod, under which lies the natural rock, having generally a uniform hard surface^ somewhat cracked and shivered. At the depth of 10 or 12 feet from the summit, this rock begins to assume a columnar tendency, and forms a range of massy pillars of basalt, which stand perpendicular to the horizon, presenting in the sharp face of the promontory, the appear- an...ce of a magnificent gallery or colonnade of upward of 60 feet in height " This colonnade is supported on a solid base of coarse, black, irregular rock, near 60 feet thick, abounding in blebs and airholes ; Digitized byLjOOQlC SEA-COAgT AND SEA-PORTS. 347 but though oomparatively irregular, it may be evidently observed to affect a peculiar figure, tending, in many places, to run into regular forms, resembling the shooting of salts and many other substances during a hasty crystallisation. *
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