far into the sea as can be seen, it is probable that it does not reach beneath the water to a distance equal to that which is seen above. The columns are of equal dimensions through their whole height, which ranges from fifteen to thirty-six feet, with diameters of from fifteen to twenty-eight inches, and varying in the number of pentagons and hexagons. How deeply they extend into the strand has not been ascertained.

Almost every column is composed of several pieces which are jointed together with the greatest exactness, not with flat surfaces, but, like a ball and socket, the one end of a joint being a cavity, or of a concave shape, into which the convex end of the other is exactly fitted.

Each of the pillars or columns is perfectly distinct, and almost invariably differs in size, number of sides, and length of the jointed pieces, from the adjacent columns, to which, however, it is so close that not even water can pass between them. About three hundred yards east of the Causeway is the "Giant's Organs," about one hundred and twenty feet long, consisting of sixty columns, of which those in the center are forty feet high, but those on the sides are lower. At the eastern extremity of Port Noffer are four lofty and massive basaltic columns, rising to the height of three hundred and fifteen feet; they are hexagonal and jointed, and from their height and isolated position, are called the "Chimney Tops."

But the most picturesque cliff is the Pleaskin, which rises from the sea in successive stages, each presenting the appearance of a vast colonnade, for more than three hundred and seventy feet. The last stage terminating at the summit, and which

crowns the whole, is the most magnificent of the series, its pillars or columns being over sixty feet in height. This splendid headland, which is unrivaled for beauty of arrangement and variety of coloring, is seen to most advantage from the sea, from which also some of the grandest views of the Causeway and its adjacent scenery are obtained.

Spell and pronounce :-promontory, access, verdant, Stookans, stupendous, abruptly, level, colonnades, pillars, Honeycombs, symmetrically, visible, diameters, ascertained, hexagonal, varying, adjacent, isolated. and Chimney Tops.

OUTLINE FOR COMPOSITION.

Subject: NATURAL WONDERS.

1. Name other wonderful formations besides the Giant's Causeway.

2. What, and where are the grandest mountains; largest and most beautiful lakes, valleys, rivers, etc.; the most remarkable ravines, caves, cataracts, geysers, and volcanoes on the globe?

3. Have you seen any of these wonderful things? If you have, describe them as they impressed you.

4. What lesson can we learn from seeing the sublime and beautiful works of God?

MEMORY GEMS.

"Press on! surmount the rocky steeps,
Climb boldly o'er the torrent's arch;

He fails alone who feeble creeps;

He wins who dares the hero's march."

PARK BENJAMIN.

"Defer not till to-morrow to be wise;
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise."

CONGREVE.

"The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.”

CARLYLE.

LESSON CVI.

vălve, a lid to an aperture, so formed as to open in one direction while it closes in the other.

re vĕrse' an ĕn'ġine, to cause it to go in an opposite direction; to change the motion of the crank.

THE ENGINEER'S STORY.

Ours was a new line, running through miles of unsettled country, where it is no wonderful thing to make out in the far distance half a dozen Indians galloping along with hair and blanket streaming out behind. For years past I have driven on that line. I drove there when it ran only twenty miles; and I ran along that line as it stretched out farther and farther into the great region westward.

One of the settlers in that new country built himself a log-house close to the railway, where he had made a bit of a clearing. Perhaps he thought it would be company for his wife and little ones to see the trains go by with people in them, besides being some protection from the wandering tribes about.

I may say I got quite to know those people, and hard-working folks they were. Before they had been there six months, that bit of wilderness began to look like a little garden of Eden; and before long two more families came and built their loghouses in the neighborhood. I felt acquainted with those first folks, though we never spoke, for I always went by them at twelve miles an hour. But the little ones used to stand at the door and cheer, and, as time went on, I would wave my hat to the husband and wife too, so that they gen

erally used to

come out when they heard me

coming up or down.

We got to be such friends at last, that I used to buy candy and cakes, and throw them into the door-yard as I went by, for the children to scramble after; and that is what it was that caused it, and this is how it was.

We were going comfortably along one afternoon, till, as we got near the clearing where my friends (as I called them) were living, I began to feel in my pockets for a couple of papers of something that I'd got, when my fireman said, "Hollo! what's that on the line?"

"Cow?" said I.

"Cow? no," he said; "why-why-it's three chil

dren!"

"Sound- I did not stop to finish, but opened the little valve myself, making the still afternoon air quiver with the shrill scream it sent far and wide.

"That's moved them," said my fireman, laughing to see the little distant figures scamper away.

"I thought it would," I said; and then, with my hand on the valve, I made the thing shriek again and again, for there was one of the children still just in the middle of the track.

In a moment I had forgotten all about the stuff in the papers, for a queer sort of a feeling came over me, one that for a few moments took all the nerve from my limbs, so that I could not move; while, as if from the same feeling, my fireman stood staring with all his might straight at the poor child.

We were too near for it to have done any good even if we had reversed the engine; and with a