A print from a disbound book of Northern & Southern Ireland published 1900. Blank on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border.
Average image size approx 9" x 6.5" or 22.5cm x 16.5cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
1900 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY.
The mole or platform strictly called the Causeway, is about 700 feet long by half as wide, and, according to legend, is the Irish end of a gigantic highway laid down by Finn McCoul from this spot to Staffa, of which all but the two ends have sunk in the sea. Here the tops of the basaltic pillars are low and roughly level like a pavement. These pillars are not formed by crystallisation, but by contraction in cooling, like the prisms of starch. This is shown by the fact that all are not of same shape hexagons, pentagons, and octagons being found. In one spot they are so arranged as to form a "Lady's Chair," sitting in which is supposed to confer blessings of matrimony or maternity, according to the condition of the visitor. In another spot a ring of low pillars forms the "Giant's Well."