 By dilapidation, or decomposition of part of the rock, time, and the washing of the waves, have perforated a cave many yards in diameter, which extends about twenty yards into a rock, making part of the mainland, and horizontal with the level of the sea...  O'Donnel: A National Tale - Page 240by Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1814Full view - About this book
 | James M'Parlan - 1802 - 234 pages
...is to be seen that awfully frightful and d*rious phenomenon, called M' Swine's gun, By delapidation or decomposition of part of the rock, time and the...about twenty yards into a rock making part of the main land, and horizontal with the levels of the sea ajc. .high and low water marks, or nearly so.... | |
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...is a curious and frightful phenomenon, called M'Swine's Gun. By a decomposition of part of the rock, the waves have perforated a cave many yards in diameter, which extends abont sixty feet into a rock, making part of the main land, and nearly horizontal with the level of... | |
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