...of Alan Stevenson, Esq., engineer to the board. The island of Gometray is now passed on the left, " And Ulva dark and Colonsay,* And all the group of...guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rise." Staffa, no less the wonder of the geologist than of the admirer of nature, is about eight miles...

...vault a tribe expires ! The bones which strew that cavern's gloom, Too well attest their dismal doom. Merrily, merrily, goes the bark On a breeze from the...Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that wondrous...

...maintains his fires, Till in the vault a tribe expires I The bones which strew that cavern's gloon Too well attest their dismal doom. X. Merrily, merrily,...Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found, And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that wondrous...

...Or the swan through the summer sea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark, and the Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard...Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found ; And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that...

...splendours fling, And the whole world send back the song Which now the angels sing ! EH SEARS. STAFF A. MERRILY, merrily, goes the bark, On a breeze from...Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staft'a round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had...

...vault a tribe expires ! The bones which strew that cavern's gloom, Too well attest their dismal doom. Merrily, merrily, goes the bark On a breeze from the...Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets pay That guard famed Staffai round. Then all unknown its columns rose, "Where dark and undisturbed...

...which strew that cavern's gloom, Too well attest their dismal doom. x. Merrily, merrily goes the bark 2 On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through...Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsay, 1 [MS.—" Till in their smoke," &c.] 2 [" And so also ' merrily, merrily goes the bard,' in a succession...

...sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Шva dark, and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay...Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturbed repose The cormorant had found ; And the shy seal had quiet home, And weltered in that...

...to recall our first view of the lofty colonnades of Staft'a, and to exclaim, with Walter Scott : " The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark, and Colonsay, And all the group of islands gay That guard famed Staffa round. Then all unknown its columns rose, Where dark and undisturb'd...

...emerging from the sound of Mull. According to this, the Sudreyjar included not only .S tafia and lona, and ' Ulva dark, and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round ;' And ' Jura's rugged coast,' and " Scarba's isle, whose tortured shore Still rings to Corrievrecken's...