 The depth of the recess is 227 feet, and the breadth at the inner termination 22. The sides within are columnar throughout; the columns being broken and grouped in many different ways, so as to catch a variety of direct and reflected tints, mixed with...  General Treatise on Geography - Page 61by Alexander F. Foster - 1852Full view - About this book
 | John Macculloch - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1824 - 496 pages
...to acquire or convey any notion of the grandeur and variety which it contains. The sides of the cave within, are columnar throughout; the columns being...with secondary shadows and deep invisible recesses, which produce a picturesque effect, only to be imitated by careful study of every part. It requires... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Geology - 1829 - 266 pages
...regularity throughout, its sides being columnar, and, in many places, broken and irregularly grouped, so as to catch a variety of direct and reflected tints, mixed with unexpected shadows, and producing a picturesque effect, which no regularity could possibly have given.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 820 pages
...on the other 18. The depth of the recess is 227 feet, and the breadth at the inner termination 22. The sides within are columnar throughout ; the columns...ways, so as to catch a variety of direct and reflected tint*, mixed with secondary shadows and deep invisible recesses. As the sea never ebbs entirely out,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Australia - 1842 - 828 pages
...on the other 18. The depth of the recess ia 227 feet, and the breadth at the inner termination 22. The sides within are columnar throughout ; the columns being broken and grouped in many dînèrent ways, so as to catch a variety of direct and reflected tints, mixed with secondary shadows... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...all the views of it hitherto published. The columns are frequently broken, and irregularly grouped, so as to catch a variety of direct and reflected tints, mixed with unexpected shadows, that produce a picturesque effect which no regularity could have given. The ceiling... | |
 | Great Britain - 1847 - 582 pages
...the recess ia two hundred and twenty-seven feet, and the breadth at the inner termination twenty-two. The sides within are columnar throughout ; the columns...with secondary shadows and deep invisible recesses. As the sea never ebbs entirely out, the only floor of this beautiful cave is the fine green water,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1849 - 830 pages
...on the other 18. The depth of the recess is 227 feet, and the breadth at the inner termination 22. The sides within are columnar throughout; the columns...with secondary shadows and deep invisible recesses. As the sea never ebbs entirely out, the only floor of this beautiful cave is the fine green water,... | |
 | Staffa - 1850 - 186 pages
...all the views of it hitherto published. The columns are frequently broken and irregularly grouped, so as to catch a variety of direct and reflected tints, mixed with unexpected shadows, that produce a picturesque effect which no regularity could have . given. The ceiling... | |
 | RICHARD S. FISHER - 1852 - 734 pages
...on the other 18. The depth of the recess is '227 feet, and the breadth at the inner termination 22. The sides within are columnar throughout ; the columns...with secondary shadows and deep invisible recesses.** As the sea never ebbs entirely out, the only floor of this beautiful cave is the fine green water,... | |
 | Treasury - 1853 - 276 pages
...to acquire or convey any notion of the grandeur and variety which it contains. The sides of the cave within are columnar throughout ; the columns being...with secondary shadows and deep invisible recesses, which produce a picturesque effect, only to be imitated by careful study of every part. It requires... | |
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