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How Fingal’s Cave is built from basalt
The book presents Fingal’s Cave as a grand, remarkably orderly passage on Staffa’s southern shore, extending about 230 feet into the island[1]. Its entrance is an archway 50 feet wide and about 70 feet high, topped by what the book calls an architrave of another 30 feet[2]. Along both sides stand symmetrical, greenish-black basalt pillars, described as “wonderfully jointed”; most have five or six sides[3][4]. Basalt is the rock those pillars are made of; according to the book, Staffa comes from a Norse word for “staves or columns”[5].
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