Fingal's Cave from above; Staffa, off the West coast of Mull, Inner Hebrides. Prominent since a visit by Sir Joseph Banks, the

Fingal's Cave from above; Staffa, off the West coast of  Mull, Inner Hebrides. Prominent since a visit by Sir Joseph Banks, the Stock Photo
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2747 x 4129 px | 23.3 x 35 cm | 9.2 x 13.8 inches | 300dpi

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Fingal's Cave from above; Staffa, off the West coast of Mull, Inner Hebrides. Prominent since a visit by Sir Joseph Banks, the late 18th century, who extolled the natural beauty of the crystalline basaltic lava columns, and named the main sea cavern Fingal's Cave. Other prominent personalities included Queen Victoria, Felix Mendelssohn, 1829, through his Hebrides Overture. Samuel Johnson and his protege James Boswell visited 1773; Robert Adam; Sir Walter Scott (1810), John Keats (1818), J. M. W. Turner, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, William Wordsworth (1833), Jules Verne (1839), Alice Liddell (the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland) in 1878, David Livingstone (1864), Robert Louis Stevenson (1870). Wordsworth, however, found the volume of tourism disappointing.

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