. Greatest wonders of the world . herowlocks, as the boat goes up an aqueous mountain, andthen down into one of those cursed maritime valleys wherethere is no rest as on shore! At last, after they had pulled me enough about, and soldme all the boxes of specimens, I was permitted to land atthe spot whence we set out, and whence, though we hadbeen rowing for an hour, we had never been above fivehundred yards distant. Let all cockneys take warning fromthis ; let the solitary one caught issuing from the back doorof the hotel, shout at once to the boatmen to be gone—that he will have none of them.
. Greatest wonders of the world . herowlocks, as the boat goes up an aqueous mountain, andthen down into one of those cursed maritime valleys wherethere is no rest as on shore! At last, after they had pulled me enough about, and soldme all the boxes of specimens, I was permitted to land atthe spot whence we set out, and whence, though we hadbeen rowing for an hour, we had never been above fivehundred yards distant. Let all cockneys take warning fromthis ; let the solitary one caught issuing from the back doorof the hotel, shout at once to the boatmen to be gone—that he will have none of them. Let him, at any rate, gofirst down to the water to determine whether it be smoothenough to allow him to take any decent pleasure by ridingon its surface. For after all, it must be remembered thatit is pleasure we come for—that we are not obliged to takethose boats.—Well, well! I paid ten shillings for mine, andten minutes after would cheerfully have paid five poundsto be allowed to quit it; it was no hard bargain after < U mHZ < 5 tJz o HU h THE GIANTS CAUSEWAY IO9 As for the boxes of spar and specimens, I at once, being onterra firma, broke my promise, and said I would see themall—first. It is wrong to swear, I know; but sometimesit relieves one so much ! The first act on shore was to make a sacrifice to Sanctis-sima Tellus; offering up to her a neat and becoming Tag-lioni coat, bought for a guinea in Covent Garden only threemonths back. I sprawled on my back on the smoothest ofrocks that is, and tore the elbows to pieces: the guidepicked me up; the boatman did not stir, for they had theirwill of me; the guide alone picked me up, I say, and bademe follow him. We went across a boggy ground in oneof the little bays, round which rise the green walls of thecliff, terminated on either side by a black crag, and the lineof the shore washed by the poluphloisboiotic, nay the pol-uphloisboiotatotic sea. Two beggars stepped over the bogafter us howling for money, and
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