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54 convulsions are not an admissable expedient, as they too often are by geologists, when comprehensible causes cannot be suggested, it is a Sound which has been cut off from the sea by the waste of the hills, that waste forming the country which now interested us. To be candid, we had had quite enough of the scenery which its upper end presents, and were charmed with the scenery of its seaward end—at first, because superficially, it presents such a contrast to that to which the eye had been accustomed for a number of days; and afterwards because it was seen to have substantial merits, when examined with a regard to the matter of pounds, shillings, and pence.