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 . broad convexityto the sea, forming a striking contrast to the semicircular bays and pointed capes,the most perfect of which is called the Pleaskin {Pleasg-ke7i, the dry head).Near the former is the remarkable natural pillar which, thanks to the guidesand custom, is called The Giants Granny. Passing westward by Port naTrughen—Lamentation harbor, so called from the wo
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 . broad convexityto the sea, forming a striking contrast to the semicircular bays and pointed capes,the most perfect of which is called the Pleaskin {Pleasg-ke7i, the dry head).Near the former is the remarkable natural pillar which, thanks to the guidesand custom, is called The Giants Granny. Passing westward by Port naTrughen—Lamentation harbor, so called from the woful moans, as of humanvoices, issuing from the caves—we meet the Giants Pulpit, hanging over thesea, the perpendicular rock called the Giants Ball Alley, the Twins off thefine headland called Ben-bane na Parage (the white cliff of the sea), and the redsandstone group called the Lions Head a little east of Horse-shoe Harbor,and finally Port na Pleaskin, before we reach the splendid semicircular precipiceof Pleaskin itself. Sir John Forbes thinks It the most beautiful and pictur-esque of these cliffs, and that In which the various strata, particularly the colum- * See Hamilton, p. 128 ; Drummond, pp. 168-171. ANTRIM. 151. nar, are more regularly shown. However we may agree with Sir John, that no drawing would do full justice to its splendor and magnificence, as seen in themorning sunshine from the boat; still it will be seen that in the bold profileviewfrom the east, given by our artist, its remarkable features alluded toby Ham-ilton—whose description in its combination of scientific accuracy and pictorialeffect has not been bettered by any writer since—are suggestively conveyed. The summit of Pleaskin is covered with a thin grassy sod, under which liesthe natural rock, having generally an uniform hard surface, somewhat crackedand shivered. At the depth of twelve feet from the summit, this rock begins toassume a columnar tendency, and forms arange of massy pillars of basa
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