One of these was stupendously lofty and large.

It was white as snow; its summit hung directly over our heads.

The sea-fowls were flying around it.

Its whiteness was occasionally chequered with dark green masses of samphire, which grew there.

On the other side, and behind us, was a more gradual declivity of many-coloured earths, interspersed with green patches of grass and bushes, and little streams of water trickling down the bank, and mingling with the sea at the bottom.