 Giant's Causeway, and composed of the broken ends of pillars once continuous to the top of the cliff. The colonnade is now for some distance upright and very grand, till the visitor reaches...  The book of the world - Էջ 65Richard Swainson Fisher - 1852Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1838 - 866 էջ
...uninteresting. The noted rock Buachaille, or the herdsman, is a coniadal pile of columns, about thirty feot high, lying on a bed of curved horizontal ones, visible only at low-water. The causeway here presentu an extensive surface, which terminates in a long projecting point... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 820 էջ
...130 feet, and the breadth contracting to the termination. Next occurs the noted rock, ttuachiiil/e (the herdsman), a conoidal pile of columns, about...for some distance upright and very grand, till the visiter reaches the Uaim/t JJinn (Musical Cave), usually called Fingal's Cave, by far the most impressive... | |
 | 1845 - 1368 էջ
...dimensions gradually contracting to its termination. The noted rock Buachaille, or the herdsman, is a conoidal pile of columns, about 30 feet high, lying...curved horizontal ones, visible only at low water. The average diameter of the jointed columns here, and in Fingal's cave, is about two feet, but sometimes... | |
 | 1847 - 582 էջ
...termination. Next occurs the noted rock Buachaille (the herdsman), a conoidal pile of columns, about thirty feet high, lying on a bed of curved horizontal ones,...for some distance upright and very grand, till the visiter reaches the Uaimh Binn (Musical cave), usually called Fingal's cave, by far the most impressive... | |
 | William Chambers - 1849 - 830 էջ
...being 130 feet, and the breadth contracting to the termination. Next occurs the noted rock, Buachaille (the Herdsman), a conoidal pile of columns, about...here an extensive surface, resembling that of the Giants' Causeway, and composed of the broken ends of pillars once continuous to the top of the cliff.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 856 էջ
...130 feet, and the breadth contracting to the termination. Next occurs the noted rock, BwichaiUe — the Herdsman — a conoidal pile of columns, about 30 feet high, lying on a bed of carved horizontal ones, visible only at lowwater. There is here an extensive surface, resembling that... | |
 | William Chambers - 1857 - 824 էջ
...bein,_ 130 feet, and the breadth contracting to the termination. Next occurs the noted rock, Buachaille (the Herdsman), a conoidal pile of columns, about...here an extensive surface, resembling that of the Giants' Causeway, and composed of the broken ends of pillars once continuous to the top of the cliff.... | |
 | Robert William Fraser - 1860 - 332 էջ
...uninteresting. The noted rock Buachaile, the Herdsman, is a uonoid.il pile of columns, about thirty feet high, lying on a bed of curved horizontal ones, visible only at low-water. The causeway here presents an extensive surface, which terminates in a long projecting point... | |
 | Alexander Murray (publisher.) - 1866 - 468 էջ
...feet high, 17 broad at entrance, 130 in length, but contracting gradually. The 'Herdsman' rock is a pile of columns about 30 feet high, lying on a bed...curved horizontal ones, visible only at low water. The causeway has an extensive surface, terminating in a projecting point at the western side of the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1875 - 840 էջ
...30 feet, and the breadth contracting to the termination. Next occurs the noted rock, Buachaille — the Herdsman — a conoidal pile of columns, about...on a bed of curved horizontal ones, visible only at low-water. There is here an extensive surface, resembling that of ihe Giant's Causeway, and composed... | |
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