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Fingal's Cave

noun
1.
A large cave with basaltic pillars on Staffa island in Scotland.





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"Fingal's Cave" Quotes from Famous Books



... Holy Families, etc. But we cannot get tired of what has been done in Oratorios more than we can get tired of Raffaelle. Mendelssohn is really original and beautiful in romantic music: witness his Midsummer Night's Dream, and Fingal's Cave. ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald
... had come up, and made our way toward the west. We had not gone very far when a beautiful grotto, perfect as an architectural struc- ture, arrested our attention. M. Letourneur and Andre, who have visited the Hebrides, pronounced it to be a Fingal's cave in miniature; a Gothic chapel that might form a fit vestibule for the cathedral cave of Staffa. The basaltic rocks had cooled down into the same regular concentric prisms; there was the same dark canopied roof with its in- terstices filled ...
— The Survivors of the Chancellor • Jules Verne
... all known caverns, is that called Fingal's Cave, in the Isle of Staffa, on the western coast of Scotland. Its length is 370 feet; and the height at the entrance of the cave is ...
— Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy • Anonymous


Words linked to "Fingal's Cave" :   cave, Staffa


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