Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.

 

Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.
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October 12, 1779
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On the Giant's Causeway. A similar opinion was expressed by the Dutch traveller Richard Twiss in 1775 in A Tour of Ireland, p. 157.

 

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