The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-11-17
County.

oout iiioit OF tncic tnere rs little ellie remark
able. fhall only notice fome other particu-
lars concerning two or three. Snowdon, at its
iummit, nies TO mere point, from which NAV
be iecn part of ireland and Scotland; Cum
bertrand, LancaGiire, Chefilire all the north of
Wales the Iriifl and Britiih feas, the lie of
Man, the ie or Guernfey, &c. forming, on the
whole, one of the mott extenlive views in the
kingdom.
Ben-Lomond, in Stirlingfhire, itretches along
the eaa iide of Loch-Lomond, a lake which we
ihaf, i,ortly defcrte; and its bafe extends 70 far
INTO the country, tiat ITS afcent, though fteep,
is computed 10 be about ix miles. ri Iikewife
fer1iiGies a mot noble profoea, which is rejl
defcriocd in the following little poem:
The fctt;ng fun, with parting ray uprear'd,
Ben-Lomond lsf OF all our mountains gilds
Day, as averfe to leave the pleaiing fcene,
slowly retires far north , nor quite forfakes,
But loon returns, more bright and fair, to glad
with morning beams, his lofty pathlefs top;
Whence ofe, Proipe& wide of vaft extent,
Ot nils and dales Of friths and winding fhores:
beneath, the lake ;tfe!f in part conceald;
The Clyde with crowded fails and freamers cav (;
EaitwaTd the may Forth, me1ndring flow,
For argeit heets, deep and cafe retreat,
Klch with the creatures OF remoteft chimes
Edina's lofty towers the ealern coat
Far As the Cheviot Fells; the weAern lies
OF Butte and Arran; Atlas comic rock;
Old Rotfay's royal towers in ruin laid
Fibernias verd1nt hills and fertile plains
The rival heights of great Pjinmnon's too,
III diftant Wales; through Skiddaw, Cambria coaa
Beyond the soway Firth, unnotc'd hands,
While hills on hills fill higher rife behind
30 much for Bcn-Lomond. Along the fhorc
or the Murray FIRTH we meet with various hills
OF ioo!e fand, which being eafly put in motion
by the wind, has overwhelmed great part of
The adjacent plains 70 that All eftate, which
was rented century ago at l.. 500 per annum,
is now waite OF fand, with here and there the
top branch OLA tree, or chimney head, ap-
pearing above it,
The vaft piles Of mountains in RofIbre, Il
IS fad, are entirely competed of white marble,
fmooth and sloiiy as to appear enormous manes
of ice.
Let u5 now pats into the weeern ines.--The
profpect from tie Paps Of Jura is altogether en-
chanting. The lies of Jura itGeIfand Tia appear
EXTENDED like nap nndsr your feet beyond
that you fee the north Of ireland, with two o.
ther iiiands to the ear Kintyre, Arran, and the
Fifth Of Clyde bounded Ayraire to the north
eait vaG trIa of country is vilibie, as far as
Ben-Lomond, and lkewife the finall ifland Scar
ba. To the welt, Collonfay, TREY, Orronfay,
and Coll, prcfeut themfelvcs to your view.
The ile of Staffa, another of the Hebrides,
may at prefent properly enough come under
miIe in length, and half mile in breadth, is f,Ip-
ported by bafaltic columns, above fifty feet high,
having for their BATS the rude fold rock, form.
ing one OF the mott majefic appearances that
can &c imagined. In it you meet with the MOT
remarkable iubterrancous manlion perhaps in
the world. The mind, Gays Sir Jofcph Banks,
can lcarcoly form an idea more magnificent
than fuch fpace, Imported OH each lide by
ranges Of columns, anu rooted by the bottom OF
thoie which have been broken off in order to
form IT between the angles of which yellow
talagcitic matter has exnded, which ferves to
define the angles precifsly, and, az the fame
time, to vary the colour with great deal of eTe-
gance and, to render II Till more agreeable,
the whole is lighted from without and the air
within, being agitated by the Aux and rejipx of
The tides, is perfectly dry and wholefome. The
following is the diineb6oos Of this very remark
able cave:
Feet In.
Length ofthe cave from the
arch withcut, s7l 8
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