Excerpt from Poetic Sketches, Descriptive of the Giant's Causeway, and the Surrounding Scenery: With Some Detached PiecesTye suhsequent sketches were in part written hefore the appearance of Dr. Drummond's poem on the same suly'ect. 'i have read that work and I am impressed with the conviction, that the sublimity of. His conceptions - the grandeur ofpoetic expression in which they are clothed - will put to silence all competitors, and chill their hopes of arriving at his celehzity, I am sensible, that in treading his footsteps, I have chosen dangerous gro'u'nd and I would earnestly deprecate a comparison.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.