It Is A Rock Perpendicularly
Tubulated, United On One Side With A High Shore, And On The Other
Rising Steep To A Great Height, Above The Main Sea.
The top is
open, from which may be seen a dark gulf of water which flows into
the cavity, through a breach made in the lower part of the
inclosing rock.
It has the appearance of a vast well bordered with
a wall. The edge of the Buller is not wide, and to those that walk
round, appears very narrow. He that ventures to look downward
sees, that if his foot should slip, he must fall from his dreadful
elevation upon stones on one side, or into water on the other. We
however went round, and were glad when the circuit was completed.
When we came down to the sea, we saw some boats, and rowers, and
resolved to explore the Buller at the bottom. We entered the arch,
which the water had made, and found ourselves in a place, which,
though we could not think ourselves in danger, we could scarcely
survey without some recoil of the mind. The bason in which we
floated was nearly circular, perhaps thirty yards in diameter. We
were inclosed by a natural wall, rising steep on every side to a
height which produced the idea of insurmountable confinement. The
interception of all lateral light caused a dismal gloom. Round us
was a perpendicular rock, above us the distant sky, and below an
unknown profundity of water.
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