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Title: Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China Seas and Japan, performed in the years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the government of the United States
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866
Subjects: United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
Publisher: Washington : A. O. P. Nicholson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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and found issue in these channels, which the torrents thatcome down the sides of the mountains in the rainy season toward the sea have worn smooth byconstant attrition. Some of these dykes, or canal-like passages, less affected by time and thewashing of the water, still retain their irregular formation, which has so much the appearanceof steps that the observer, as he looks upon them, might fancy they had been cut by the handof man in the solid rock, for the purpose of climbing the mountain. On the Southern Head, asit is called, within the harbor of Port Lloyd, there is a very curious natural cave or tunnel,which passes through the basaltic rock, from the Southern Head to the beach on the other side.The entrance has a width of about fifteen feet, and a height of thirty, but the roof within soonrises to forty or fifty feet, where it has so much the appearance of artificial structure, that itmay be likened to a builders arch, in which even the keystone is observable. There is sufficient
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Natural Tuiilld, Purt LIuyJ, U-i:ii.i L^UllJ:^ water for a boat to pass from one end to the other. There are several otiier caves or tunnels,one of which is at least fifty yards in length, and ))asses through a headland buumling tlieharbor. Tins is con.stantl) traverKcl by the canoes of the inhabitants.•2C. J 202 EXPEDITION TO JAPAN. The geological formation of the island is trappean, with its various configurations andmineralogical peculiarities; columnar hasalt appears, and hornblende and chalcedony are tlmnd.There are all the indications of past volcanic action, and the oldest resident of Peel Island statedthat two or three tremblings of the earth, giving evidence of a liability to earthquake, areexperienced annually even now. The harbor of Tort Lloyd (as Beechey named it) is on the western side, and nearly in thecentre of Peel Island. It is easy of ingress and egress, and may be considered as safe andcommodious, though of deep anchorage. Vessels usually anchor in from eighteen t

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