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[fizzytom, 28/06/2011] One can only imagine the reaction of the Bishop of Derry on discovering in, 1692, what we now call the Giant's Causeway. It was some years later that it was identified that this strange landscape on Northern Ireland's (today, not then) Antrim Coast was the result of volcanic activity millions of years ago but at the time seeing these bizarre basalt columns rising from the sea must have been like finding oneself at the edge of a new world.
Before long the Giant's Causeway was a tourist attraction; in the nineteenth century a tramway was built to bring in the many thousands of visitors who w
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