Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . 158 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. Physically speaking, the altitude and grandeur of Fair Head, Bengore and Pleas-kin more fitly realize their expectations, and having seen these, and having theappetite, so to speak, whetted more for the appreciation of the picturesque thanthe analysis of the profound, the Giants Causeway seems in comparison smalland insignificant. The view o
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . 158 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. Physically speaking, the altitude and grandeur of Fair Head, Bengore and Pleas-kin more fitly realize their expectations, and having seen these, and having theappetite, so to speak, whetted more for the appreciation of the picturesque thanthe analysis of the profound, the Giants Causeway seems in comparison smalland insignificant. The view of the coast in the preceding illustration presents an accurateprofile of the Causeway from the east. On the left we see the great cliff overPort Notfer, in which a portion of the Organ is visible ; under, and separatedfrom the rocky amphitheater by a short space, the vertical columns of the chief (eastern) mole of the Causeway rise to nearlyforty feet—the part is called The Loom—and diminish by degrees as it stretches outand sinks into the ocean. As the Causewayis the western extremity of Port Noffer, itforms the eastern boundary of Port na Ganye(sandy harbor), the western end of which issentineled by the Steucans, the
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