Show A IlA nigh high up on the western slope elope of mount davidson i is a remarkable cliff it being madil up of basaltic columns of the most perfect forms somo ian pen e ta tago gODal oal some hexagonal and othora 0 are octagonal the columns are arc of a q cies of trip trap or nual are arc as 5 smooth as thought they had been drilo sed off ciff with a panne and are arc exceedingly hard colli columns tring fifty bihy net feet high are to bo be stan s en in the alo face or of the cliff and th they cy probably extend down twenty or thirty duct ee cicato iato the dabria debris from the hill at the top a great mass mats of these columns is 13 curved over toward the be bill or 11 inland as it ware and nd in ono place a largo large number of the col cl innab are arc broken off and acen from bolow below look like alle a lot of cordwood clacked up on the iho brow of the bill the columns ATO arc jointed bud and fit into each cadi other as neatly as though hough the joints were mode made by somo some cunning workman in tone stone the end of ono one potion polion portion being concave while the other is ia convex in some placid 5 joints of these wonderful colum colu iDos tenor ten or fifteen feet feel in length a lean out from iho baca faca of the cliff several fauct looking like a lot of brok n piles or a damor lazed stockade blockade we do no not believe that the much hauled lau led columns of finals riDgal 0 9 cave cato are more 0 perfect r c than these he of this ibia little known ka o W a it a cliff indeed in deed nothing could be more perfect than they are arc both in form and in articulation artic pew few persons persona except hunters and wood choppers have ever seen this remarkable formation if the cliff wore were in some more accessible it would doubtless be by all the curious i in lucri auch things thin ws who might alit abia pasit of the state slate A gen dentan wh i lately l examined the hill said baia 11 what a pity ill it is ia that this formation could not have been near the manci mine those column col again would won id bo be just the tiling to use instead ol of timbers they would probably bo be too 00 beitle for such use as they are arc so eo hard that whenever struck they ario ling n like aik steel if the debrei which hit bi fac c cumulated at the lout fout tit A the ilo cliff e for thousands on thousands of years were removed to a level with lie ilia general surface orthe of the ground lit in the vicinity the columns would preset ent an appearance pe arance ciulo less imposing than the majority i 4 f those found on tile the island of the highest or of which measures but feet |