The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-28 00:00:00

n a great dis-
in this locality

alternated beds of

act quartzose ro,

atifiCatior,." The cavities in
Atoes, and are edged with pink
with sea anemonies, bright
'ells of various colours. The

its thrown into carious po-
The

convulsion of nature

lifferently for their irregularity.
cently visited Kilkee, informed
luge bristling rocks, inclining
)erpendicular, and apparently
sition, remarked to old Tim
What a convulsion it must

s !" said Tim, " You see,
vaded Ireland, the faudhbollos
kept them off by upsetting the

learly circular,

Ls to resem-

from which ilderives its name—

ut forty feet deep. Near it,
!gged indenture in the
rock, fifty or sixty feet in
!r," already almost toppling
wearing and breakage of the
in the cavities of the bay be-
dash over the whole of these
tance further south is the ce-
vulgarly " Puffing Hole."
e rock, somewhat in the form
are hole at the bottom. The

.1 bay, or rt

rty feet across either way ; and

ut four feet by three.
Under the hole, the

lermined, to a large extent,
k ; and there can exist no

I the r

or succession of waves, dash-
nging mass, fairly burst it up,

)wder,-ard, the weaker part of the
cuffing Hole" was formed. The

to enlarge it,—for we

block of stone, probably a ton
the mouth of the hole,
parent bed,

from i

it, and thrown upside
part of the ledge from
We had not
in play, for the

)5, the waves

s rise under it, the water
p ; a graceful column, which

)rpe pointed out to us a
!ep and even overhanging
, and now known as " In.
ly loss i❑ it, in 1836, of a
erpool, and bound to New

and about

only at its mouth. The ship, driven
a westerly gale, went down with all
:aty-one in number—in the sight of
m the cliff overlooking them, who en-
rescue them by means of ropes. My
Liverpool to Limerick, Mr. Tall, (who
loyed as a diver, together with Mr.
;fearing the wreck of the Royal George,)
.d here for many months in diving, with
applies the place of the diving-bell, to re-
cargo as was worth being raised,—and
iith some highly-interesting particulars
ervations in Intrinsic Bay, which, with
relative to the loss of the vessel, I shall
an addendum to these sketches for a

. ascended an eminence
*hest in the immediate
225 feet above the water.
,guard station,) vessels
,nce of forty-five miles. A compass
green sward at the top, showing the
benefit of the visitor. The view,
coast, is fine and extensive—but,
ring, there not being a tree to be
1. A short distance to the
) the main land, stands Bishop's
It is a high rock, of a square

tly a coast

An react

ngerous of access, ye—t
yields on its lofty
urage for a few sheep. Those who en-
Aching them off deserve them for their
) a smaller island, called Bird Island,
height, which reminds me, (for I write
:he whole of this interesting coast sce-

.a
-fowl—gulls of large

s, &c. The Isles of Arran, northward,
able from the hill on a clear day, and,
coast, many bluff and rocky head lands.

r, from the approach of evening, to re-
aking a different route for variety, and

le shore northward of the bay, which
.cts of interest,—and more particularly
rat bridges, not perhaps secondary to

the extraorditiary formations

, presents what
ruins" oldie sea-wall

of this coast, indeeri
ind fantastic

and the less resistible por-

the assaults of the ocean for sue-
y islands, pillars, bays, tunnels,
and bridges, formed of ledges, and

wever, of the rocks and cliffs
obtained from the sea itself ;

le coast. 1

canoes

se are constructed

laid longitudinally, the timbers being
,he same thin material, and the whole
oated with tar and pitch, They are of
th the bow turned up, and have gene-
Their breadth may be two and a half to
The

larkably list

nd buoyant

are execedingly expert in mana-
.

'tinter in them a si

a-way which

irger size would scarcely weather
1, which has swelled out

this sk

)wn expectation or intention.
our car was got in
without a stop, amu.

d to Kil

ay as we best could. Captain Ken-
;cellent dinner on board the steamer,
the invigorating air of Kilkee, it may

pie justice

t day we started for Limerick, and made a
Pout three hours and forty minutes.

!eting of the Pitt Club, on the 19th
)n was unanimously elected presi-
late Earl of Harewood, who pre-

3A5.—An accident, attended with serious
an explosion of gas, occurred yesterday
1 Grey public-house, Acton-street, near
I-road, kept by Mr. Henry Butterworth.
four o'clock, a strong smell of
use, and especially in the cellar,
) some men who were making a
t, told them that he thought the ga
e main or servic

pipe in the street
some of them would come
ok with them a lighted candle, in
:e whence the gas issued ; and the
he grid an explosion took place,
ruse, and left it in such a tottering
that it did not fall and bury the
Ir. Butterworth and the labourer
much hurt. In the bar, imme-
ere several gentlemen, who sup-
. A.wn upon them. The shock

orce of the gas tearin;
id immediately after

use, presented a scene
lered it extremely pe-

the taps were

idj of the room
etc

urled down, anc

:Lana 1,
place was thrown into the
of the flooring were stripped
ip-falls into the cellar below

this mischief, stranb
in the bar received any injury
here was no one at the tiro,