Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . orts of prac-tical and speculative philosophers, as well as tothe unlearned curious. It is an earthy cliff, about 130 feet in height,its base washed by the Atlantic waves, its topcovered with green-sward to the veiy brink. The rains have furrowed the face with deepgullies, leaving sharp and fantastically-shapedridges between, and exposing various and brightcolored earths—red, white, yellow, black, brown,and purple—which, in the sunshin^fj rejoice theeyes of the passing mariner, and have gained forit its name of Gay Head. These was
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . orts of prac-tical and speculative philosophers, as well as tothe unlearned curious. It is an earthy cliff, about 130 feet in height,its base washed by the Atlantic waves, its topcovered with green-sward to the veiy brink. The rains have furrowed the face with deepgullies, leaving sharp and fantastically-shapedridges between, and exposing various and brightcolored earths—red, white, yellow, black, brown,and purple—which, in the sunshin^fj rejoice theeyes of the passing mariner, and have gained forit its name of Gay Head. These washings alsoabound in all sorts of fossils, from petrified quo-haugs as big as your thumb nail to the skeletonsof monsters that might have swallowed the whalethat swallowed Jonah. As the shades of evening deepened we return-ed to the light-house, and there were invited bythe faithful guardian of the tower to go up andwitness the lighting of the wonderful lamp. Anda magnificent illuminator it is, the finest on ourcoasts, and perhaps unsurpassed in the
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