Letters Concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim: Containing Such Circumstances as Appear Worthy of Notice Respecting the Antiquities, Manners and Customs of that Country. : Together with the Natural History of the Basaltes, and Its Attendant Fossils, in the Northern Counties of Ireland. : The Whole Illustrated by an Accurate Map, and Engravings of the Most Interesting Objects on the Coast. : In Two Parts, Časť 1George Bonham, 1790 - 328 strán (strany) |
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Strana 76 - Her fruitful soil forever teems with wealth, With gems her waters and her air with health. Her verdant fields with milk and honey flow, Her woolly fleeces vie with virgin snow ; Her waving furrows float with bearded corn, And arms and arts her envied sons adorn.
Strana 152 - Iflands of Scotland, do really appear like the furviv.ing fragments of a Country, great part of which might have been buried in the Ocean.
Strana 53 - On examining this subterranean wonder, it was found to be a complete gallery, which had been driven forward many hundred yards to the bed of coal : that it branched off into numerous...
Strana 29 - From want of attention to this circumstance, a vast deal of time and labour have been idly spent in minute examinations of the Causeway itself: — in tracing its course under the ocean — pursuing its columns into the ground — determining its length and breadth, and the number of its pillars — with numerous wild conjectures concerning its original ; all of which cease to be of any importance, when this spot is considered only as a small corner of an immense basalt quarry, extending widely over...
Strana 74 - Causeway stand on the level of the beach, from whence they may be traced, through all degrees of elevation, to the summit of the highest grounds in the neighbourhood, as at the old fort of Dunmull, and on the top of Croaghmore, six hundred feet at least above the level of the sea.
Strana 73 - In short, from the evidence produced by this learned and faithful writer, we have the strongest reason to conclude, that this island enjoyed the blessings of a pure and enlightened piety, such as our Saviour himself taught, unembarrassed by any of the idle...
Strana 51 - About the year 1770," says he, "the miners, in pushing forward an adit toward the bed of coal, at an unexplored part of the Ballycastle cliff, unexpectedly broke through the rock into a narrow passage, so much contracted and choked up with various drippings and deposits on its sides and bottom, as rendered it impossible for any of the workmen to force through, that they might examine it farther. Two lads were, therefore...
Strana 52 - They accordingly pressed forward for a considerable time, with much labour and difficulty, and at length entered into an extensive labyrinth branching off into numerous apartments, in the mazes and windings of which they were completely bewildered and lost.
Strana 33 - ... feet ; from the base of which, the promontory, covered over with rock and grass, slopes down to the sea for the space of two hundred feet more, making, in all, a mass of near four hundred feet in height, which in beauty and variety of its colouring, in elegance and novelty of arrangement, and in the extraordinary magnitude of its objects, cannot readily be rivalled by any thing of the kind at present known.
Strana 94 - The Irish, or Hibernians, who in this century were known by the name of Scots, were the only divines who refused to dishonour their reason by submitting it implicitly to the dictates of authority.