Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1843-09-14

rate from the others and ltSeH SepdIaOle lhtO
distinct Joints the contiguous one being always
one concave and one convex !; but | will not
weary you with minute geological descrlp-
lion, as you will find il in books far better and
more satisfactorily done. Towards the centre
of the whole the pillars ascend and from the
similarity of the surface this vertex Is called
| The honeycomb' Though they are all IT.
regular. the sides Of The adjacent pillars are
equal, so iha, all are perfectly close leaving not
the smallest open space over the whUle OF THIS
basaIlic pavement This basaltic stratum Is
SAID TO be 45 feet in depth, and at the highest
part you look from the top down the pillars al
ore side, straight for near that distance, all per-
feet and arliculaIe as | have mentioned. /
spoke OF its compactness, water will remain on
i, for long Time and yet among lis wonders is
a stream OF pure fresh water which forces It.
self between the joints of two of the columns
called The Giants Well. The oldest woman
Of The place has the privilege OF waliing on vis-
iors al IT, The origin OF these singular pill
lars has puzzled manv wise and learned men.
The natives believe that The giants at whose
head was old Fin Mac Coul undertook the
forming causeway into Scotland but expelled
by the ancient Irish heroes left the great work
imperfect.
Another version is as has been amusingly
tod in late publication. "A big Scotch giant,
one Benadonner, used 10 brag that he would
lick Fin MacCoul any day, and he used TO go
over The Highlands Growing that all he wanted
was fair field and no favor. So Fin Mac
Coul went 10 the King Of Ireland, Ould Cor
mack, and says to his majesty 81 want TO let
Benadouner come over 10 Ireland without wet
ting the sole Of his shoe, and if don't lather him
as well as ever he was Iathered in his life, it
is not meeseIf that's in il. So Fin Mac Coul
got leave to build the Causeway, and did all
The road male and clane 10 Scotland, and Ben
adouner came over with his broad sword and
his kilt, and right glad he was to get dacent
excuse for leaving his own country. He was
bate of course, though he stuck up like Tro-
jan, and then he settled in the place, and be-
came obedienl to King Cormack. and gol ve-
ry purity, dacent girl 10 be his wife, and IL is
said the great Earls of Antrim are descended
from him."
In the entire Causeway the number Of pillars
is reckoned at near 100000 We fingered on
them until dark, and reached our inn after 10
o'clock at night, where fine dinner oil salmon,
trout and lamb, awaited US. In the morning
rose al five o'clock, went down and took another
look al the Causeway, and returning to break
fast, left for Coleralne again at seven. We
took another route, Andy's horse going better
homewards We first went to the ruins of
Dunluce Castle, one of the ancient residences
of The Ears of Antrim. They stand upon
perpendicular detached rock, whose entire
surface was occupied by the edifce. II was
united 10 the main land at the bottom of the
chasm by ledge of rocks a little higher than
the ocean. The only pathway at present is
along the summit of one of the walls, over
which and another parallel to II, used 10 be
plank bridge over The awful chasm, and yet
such is human daring when The incentive is
strong, that our guide told us few years ago,
a man for 20 sovereigns rode on horseback
across it. We walked 1t very carefully, and
then visited the remains Of this once fermida-
BILE castle. One room actually projects over the
sea- from the windows of which there is fine
view of the ocean, Another room is said to be
inhabied by BanShee whose chief occupation
is sweeping the floor. Strange TO say, the floor
of this room differing from the others, is en-
tirely free of grass and at all times clean as il
lust swept. Il is accounted for by some that
The wind gains admiltance through an aperture
on tho level with The floor and thus keeps IL
clean The history of this castle has much of
interest about it. 1t was burned IN l75O.-
About mile from Dunluce we visited basal
tic structure called Craig-a-huer, which in
teresled us very much. Ii is beautiful and
minulely aricuaed collonade of basallic pill
lars, with hill on Top. 1t looked as if huge
hill had fallen on temple surrounded by splen-
did pillars. The mass above has bent the col
umns by its weight and 10 some, by displacing
the tops, formed fine capitals. We reached
Colsrane just in time TO take car 10 Loadon-
derry, about 80 miles oa,-having first had a
few words with Andy. who wished TO add TO
the other imposilions he had prac.lsed on us,
by doubling his charge. We soon disposed OF
him however, and with four Others beside the
driver and any quantity Of baggage, drawn by a
poor looking l'le gray horse, started for Der
ry.
We changed once on the way, and between
them our nass took US along surprisingly: so
that we reached Londonderry in less than five
hours. Th,s. city is finely situated on hill on