 | Electronic journals - 1887 - 766 pages
...According to Sir J. Banks. arrived at the mouth of a cave, the most magnificent, I suppose, that has ever been described by travellers. The mind can hardly...side by ranges of columns, and roofed by the bottoms of those which have been broken off in order to form it, between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1887 - 772 pages
...Fingal's Cave in St.itla. arrived at the mouth of a cave, the most magnificent, I suppose, that has ever been described by travellers. The mind can hardly...side by ranges of columns, and roofed by the bottoms of those which have been broken off in order to form it, between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic... | |
 | C. C. L. Hirschfeld, Hirschfeld Hirschfeld - Architecture - 2001 - 550 pages
...time we arrived at the mouth of the cave [of Fingal], the most magnificent, I suppose, that has ever been described by travellers. The mind can hardly...side by ranges of columns; and roofed by the bottoms of those, which have been broke off in order to form it; between the angles of which a yellow stalagmitic... | |
 | 90 pages
...from three fathoms to 9 feet its breadth at the pitch of the arch 53 = 7 at the farther end 20 feet. The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent...space supported on each side by ranges of columns & roofd by the bottoms of those which have been broke off in order to form it between the angles of... | |
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been described by travellers. " The mind can hardly form an idea more magnificent than such a space, supported on each side by ranges of columns, and roofed by the bottoms 
