“Any traveller in the North of Ireland who does not see the Giant’s Causeway is certain to be regarded as not quite right in his mind. As our friends were all in the possession of their sober senses, they arranged to visit this wonder of the world…”
[The Boy Travellers in Great Britain and Ireland (1891), p. 80]
“One of the old names of the Causeway was Binguthan[?], the Giant’s Cape. Fin mac Cumhal, the hero of Irish fable, was supposed to have been the architect of this stupendous edifice, as the Basaltar[?] regions of Iceland are attributed by the natives to their Giants—“the sons of Frost” of the Edda.”
[handwritten note on inside front cover of A Guide to the Giants Causeway (1823)]
Images: The Northern Tourist, or, Stranger’s Guide to the North and North-west of Ireland (1830); The Scientific Tourist Through Ireland (1818); The Boy Travellers in Great Britain and Ireland (1891); Giant’s Causeway, photocrom print (circa 1890) from the Library of Congress collections.
