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From: Geographical
Date: 20011101
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WHERE AM I?

I am standing inside a cavern about 70 metres long and 20 metres high, whose walls have pillars of remarkable columnar form; Horace Walpole said that `it proved nature loved Gothic architecture'. Words worth wrote a poem about it and a 19th century German compose also stood here and was moved to record his impression in sound. The cavern is on an island which has no permanent habitation, though it plays host to many sight seers in the summer season. They land, precariously, at the mouth of Clam Shell Cave and come to gaze at the natural wonders. The island is oval ...

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