The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-30
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test their boasted strength Just at first you may very likely be disappoint- ed, because, coming on the Causeway as you do from the heights above, it does not appear quite as gigantic as it should, In reality, the Cause way is part of a large promontory which extends for three miles along the coast and is broken into capes and headlands rising abruptly from the sea to the height of 400 feet, and consisting of lofty colonnades of the most symmetrically formed pillars i'm serted in the cliffs libe artificial SUD- porters, standing in groups like gigan- tic honeycombs, or scattered in pleas ing disorder like the ruins of a city of temples and palaces
 That's the way some one has de- scribed it, but at first you won't see it like that at all. When you first see it, the Causeway looks like long low pier of rock, which runs out to- ward the sea, until the waves gradu- ally cover it. You will think that the geography books which you have studied and all your travelled friends who have seen the Causeway have said far too much in the way of praise until you begin to examine the rocks on which you are standing.
 Then the marvel is understood. Im- mediately they remind you of geom- etry-these rocl1s-for they have many sides and they are made up of joints eor layers of rock fitted closely togeth- CT, just as baby builds up his blocks. Most of these rocks, or piers, are either five, six or seven sided, but a few of them have four, eight or nine sides and one only is a triangle. See how long it will take you to find that one triangle-that's a fine game for a summer afternoon And how many of these pillars do you imagine that there are? About forty thousand. They rise to different heights, these pillars, so that you must take high steps in crossing them, and then take long jumps down to the first level. No wonder some members of the party bought those convenient sticks, with iron points. But alwaysHand more and more as you study the Causeway you will wonder at the different lay CTS of the rocks. Each layer is about one or two feet deep; the cracks be- tween can be plainly seen, yet they fit together so neatly that there is scarce ly any space left between. You be- gin to understand why people have come from so many parts of the world to see these curious rocks.
 And then, when you stop to think about 1t again, 1t will seem to you that those rocks-that the Causeway itself-is rather gigantic, after all. You will find that the famous Wishing Chair is, quite huge, so big that your head does not reach far above the back when you sit in it. And, as you leave this first jutting promontory against which the waves are constant ly swishing. you notice other rock for nations which impress you as very huge indeed. There's the Middle Causeway and the Western Causeway and Grand Causeway, the latter FOG feet long by 109 feet wide. There's the Giants Organ, made up of sixty col umns, of which some are forty feet high. That's good many times our height, you know. You will see also the Chimney Tops and the Giants Amphitheatre, and the cliff called "Pleaskin." and far in the distance called Bengore Head; then there is Fair Head, which has columns 150 feet high and five feet broad, but not joint ed like the others.
 By the time you are urged to climb up to the hotel for dinner, you are liking the Causeway better and bet ter; you are very loath to leave and you resolve to return the next morn ing, immediately after breakfast. You understand now why the Giants Causeway is far-famed, why it has paid some enterprising company to buy it and inclose it with an iron