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 . nd at the western extremity of Port na Callian, we behold Port naSpania, or Spanish harbor, so named from a vessel of the famous Invincible Ar-mada having been lost here. In this port is a stupendous precipice, almostequal to the Pleaskin ; and the formation of the pipe-like pillars on the perpen-dicular rock naturally suggested for the particular spot the title of
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 . nd at the western extremity of Port na Callian, we behold Port naSpania, or Spanish harbor, so named from a vessel of the famous Invincible Ar-mada having been lost here. In this port is a stupendous precipice, almostequal to the Pleaskin ; and the formation of the pipe-like pillars on the perpen-dicular rock naturally suggested for the particular spot the title of the SpanishOrgan. Some islands and another little port, Madadh Ruadh (red fox har-bor), are passed, and we arrive at the promontory over which the insulated pillars,called the Chimney Tops, are pinnacled. The tallest of the Chimneys is forty-five feet. Tradition says they derived their names from the fact that in the night-time they were mistaken for the chimneys of Dunluce Castle by one of the shipsof the Spanish Armada, which opened its batteries on and succeeded in break-ing one of them. The ship was subsequently lost on the rocks in the little bayto the east. West of the Chimneys is Port Reostan, and the Roveren Valley,. The Cluinncy Iops—Jroni tlic East. ANTRIM. 155 Avhere there is a remarkable whin-dike which cuts the face of the cliff, shapedexactly like a barbed arrowhead. Of the whin-dikes, which abound on the coast, this is esteemed a fine speci-men. We have alluded to that of Carrig Maur at Fair Head. These dikes arewalls of whinstone, trap, or prismatic basalt, varying from a few inches to fortyand fifty feet in breadth, penetrating to an unknown depth, and often attendedby a softening or an induration, and a dislocature of the strata through whichthey pass. Sometimes two of these walls or veins are seen running in parallellines, and when they are interrupted by a chasm or arm of the sea, they rise onthe opposite side with the same dis-tance and parallelism. Thus
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