have formed the cave which is fituated there f
it may be entered with a boat in fine weather,
the water in it is deep, and a great
furf runs in high winds. The approach and
entrance to the cave are by walking on ba-
faltic.columns, that alfo form a piath to the
end, which may be 60 or 70 yards.
Its breadth at the entrance about 12 or 15
yards, its height about 20 yards, depth
of the water in the cave, from 10 to
feet.
The conftant humidity of the cavern, cati-
fes the tops of the columns which form the
path, to be extremely flippery; they are alfo
at unequal diftances, and unequal in height*
fome being a foot or more higher than
others, and the width being only the diameter
of a column which renders this not one of
fafeft roads for a traveller, as one flip
would plunge him into 10 or 15 feet water,
with the additional danger of a violent furf
would render fwimming ufeîefs. I would
advife the vifitor, whofe curiofity may
lead him to the far end, to take off his
boots, by which he will have the ufe of
his feet better, and be lefs liable to
flip. This ifland, though bare, of-foil,
produces good grafs, and is much efteemed
for pafture ; fometimes 20 or 30 head of
cattle are feeding on it.
One family refides here to take care
of them during the fummer. In the neighbourhood
are feveral other interèfting* O
dflands, as Iona the luminary of the Eafl
many centuries ago ; here lie more than
forty Scottifh, Irifh, Danifh, and Norwegian
Kings or Chiefs ; here are alfo the
remains of many monuments and of -a cathedral.
Dutchman’s Cap is a Angular ifland, alfo
Ulva and others adjoining to Mull.