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ftrong between the weftern iflands of
Scotland, had not forced us in our
way to Iceland, on the twelfth of
Auguft in the night, to eaft anchor
in the Sound, between the ifle o f Mull
and Morven on the Continent, ex-
a£lly oppofite to Drumen, the feat o f
Mr. Maclean. We were immediately
invited to land, and breakfafted there
with the hofpitality that charaifterizes
the inhabitants o f the Highlands of
Scotland, Mr, Leach, another gueft of
Mr, Maclean, gave us many particulars
o f thefe pillars, which he had vifited
a few days before. Mr. Banks’s defire
o f information could not refill the
offer o f this gentleman to accompany
us to Staffa ; we therefore went on
board pur long-boat the fame day,
and arrived there at nine o’clock in
the evening. It was impoffible for
our furprize to be increafed, or our
curioiity to be fuller gratified, than
they were the next morning, when we
beheld the beautiful fpedacle that nature
prefented to our view.
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i f we even with admiration behold
arc, according to the rules prefcribed
to it, obferving a certain kind o f order
that not only ftrikes the eye,
but alfo pleafes it ; what mull be the
effeGl produced upon us when we behold
nature difpDying as it were a
regularity that far furpafied every
thing art ever produced ! An attentive
fpeGlator will find as much occa-
lion for wonder and ailoniiliment, to
obferve how infinitely ihort human wnA
dom appears; when we attempt to
imitate nature in this as well as in
any other o f her grand and awful
produilions* And though we acknowledge
nature to be the mlftrefj
o f all the arts, and afcribe a greater
degree o f perfection to them, the
nearer they approach and imitate ir,
yet we fometimes imagine that flie
might be improved, according to the
rules o f architeclure.
How magnificent are the remains
we have of the porticoes o f the antients!
and with what admiration do we behold
the colonnades wliich adorn the
principal buildings of our times ! and
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