which connected it with the portico which led to it is of the later pointed ftyle, or Early English, as is the abbey church itself. The abbot's kitchen remains entire, and the tower of St. Michael's church on Tor-hill stands a striking object far over the country. The church itself was overthrown by an earthquake in 1276. The abbot's barn on the right of the road leading to Pennard, is another remaining building; and in Highstreet, Glastonbury, stands an old building supposed to be the court-house, or tribunal. The churches of St. Benedict and St. John were also connected with the abbey. Some traces of wall are also shown as having belonged to the old hofpitium of the abbey: and at the foot of Tor-hill on the north fide still flows the chalybeate spring, regarded as holy during the palmy days of the abbey, and long afterwards of great celebrity for its healing quality.

We may close this notice by a curious fact mentioned by the Rev. J. Williams.-In July, 1859, was fold in London, by auction, the Conventual Register and Cartulary of Glastonbury Abbey, in which was inferted a letter of Bishop Tanner, ftating that he had rescued the volume from destruction at a grocer's. It realized £141 15s.

Jona, or Icolmkill.

WAHLE T would be difficult to imagine a voyage of

more interest,—whether we regard natural beauty, poetical imagery, or the intellectual attractions of a facred antiquity, than to the venerable ruins of Iona, once the Christian school which diffused its cheering light over the barbarous tribes, not only of Great Britain, but of the European continent. We there tread the ground hallowed by the footsteps of those British apostles who refifted the haughty spirit of Rome, and planted the pure doctrines of the cross in England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and even Italy. Columb and Columbanus, Gallus and Aidan, and others, who, pursuing the fame work as their countrymen, Virgilius, Albin, Erigena, Clement, Donatus, etc., spread the independent Christian truth far and wide in the face of domineering Rome.

In proceeding to this ancient Western fane, which combines so many circumftances which ought to be ever dear to Protestantism, we embark on a voyage of wild beauty, bringing us also into immediate communion with poetry as well as religion. As we have said on a former occafion, the spirit of Collins and Thomson, of Offian, of Leyden, and Scott and Campbell, is upon us. We desire to see the regions which they have invested with so many charms-to tread the lands of

fecond-fight and airy fpirits. We would look on the tombs and shattered images that stood when

Aodh, famed afar,

In Iona preached the word with power;

And Reullura, beauty's star,

Was the partner of his bower.

These words of Campbell's reveal to us that his Aodh lived when Rome had not afferted her dogma to the clergy, "forbidding to marry;" but the lonely Culdee, the miffionary of these then semi-savage ifles, had the comfort and fociety of his helpmeet to cheer him in his labours and sympathize in his difcouragements and fucceffes. Befides failing for the region. of these primitive labours, we are at the same time bound for the regions of ghosts and fays, of mermaids and kelpies, of great krakens, and a hundred other marvels and miracles. We fail along the bufy banks of the Clyde, the romantic kyles of Bute, the cloudy heights and hollows of Arran; skirting the folitary shores of Cowal, and cutting through the Mull of Cantire by the Crinan canal, we issue into the Sound of Jura, and are in the fwell of the wild Atlantic, furrounded by leaping waves and screaming fea-fowl, and dark storm-beaten crags. Soon we hear the roar, and obferve the foaming waves, of the far-famed eddy of the Corywrekan, toffing and leaping in ftrange commotion. From Oban we set fail for the Western Ifles, and as we traverse the Sound of Mull, behold, a thousand mountain-heights and objects whofe names recall scenes of old romance. The castle of Duart, Artornish Hall, the cloudy land of Morven, the region of Offian, and then we are in Mull, failing up the very harbour of Tobermory, where one of the ships of the Spanish Armada perished. Then we are coursing over the breezy waters, amid distant prospects of the Hebrides, Eig, and Canna and Rum, and the blue tops of the far mountains of Skye, gazing on the near fhores of Treshanish,

Gometra, Colonfa, and Mull; with Staffa, and its celebrated cave, a huge, isolated crag, rifing from the waters before you.

IONA.

And anon you approach the rocky ifle of Icolmkill, a wild and naked crag-land of about three miles long and one wide. "It is needless," fays Robert Chambers in his "Pictures of Scotland," to inform the reader that this is, as Johnson expreffes it," the illuftrious ifland, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence favage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the bleffings of religion."—That it was, in the fixth century, the place where Columbus, an Irish faint, first propagated the Christian faith amongst a people formerly devoted to the super

ftitions of Druidical paganism.-That it was for centuries the ordinary burial-place of the Scottish kings; and that it afterwards became at once an abbacy and the seat of the bishopric of the Ifles. The relics which ftill exist to attest its former greatness are very numerous. The cathedral is a building still pretty entire, one hundred and fixty feet long without, and thirty-four broad. Within the choir, which is itself sixty feet in length, are feveral fine pillars, carved in the Gothic way with great variety of fanciful and ludicrous figures, representing parts of scripture. Amongst the rest is an angel with a pair of scales weighing fouls, and the devil keeping down that in which the weight lies with his foot. On his face is portrayed a malicious grin. The east window is a beautiful fpecimen of Gothic workmanship. In the middle of the cathedral rifes a fquare tower of about eighty feet high, fupported by four arches, and ornamented with bas-reliefs. In the chancel there is a tomb of black marble, with a fine recumbent figure of abbot Macfingone, who died in 1580. On the other side of the chancel is a fimilar monument to the abbot Kenneth. On the floor is the figure of an armed knight, with an animal fprawling at his feet. On the right of the cathedral, and contiguous to it, are the remains of the college, fome of the cloisters of which are ftill visible. The common hall is entire, with ftone feats for the difputants. A little to the north of the cathedral are the remains of the bishop's house, and on the south is the chapel dedicated to St. Oran, pretty nearly entire, fixty feet long and twenty-two broad, but nearly filled with rubbish and monumental ftones. In the enclosures adjoining to this building, forty-eight Scottish kings, four kings of Ireland, eight Norwegian monarchs, and one of France, are said to be interred— perhaps the most extenfive holy alliance or congress of European fovereigns on the other fide of the grave. Icolmkill,

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