Fingal's Cave Fingal's Cave Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, known for its natural acoustics. The National Trust for Scotland owns the cave as part of a National Nature Reserve. It became known as Fingal's Cave after the eponymous hero of an epic poem by 18th-century Scots poet-historian James Macpherson. Fingal's Cave is formed entirely from hexagonally jointed basalt columns within a Paleocene lava flow, similar in structure to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and those of nearby Ulva. In all these cases, cooling on the upper and lower
The Columns (Columbia, Missouri) At the beginning of the academic year, freshmen participate in Tiger Walk to symbolize their move from the wider community to the university by walking through the columns. Tap Day occurs under the columns, when the schools secret societies announce their new members. A mural of James S. Rollins and the Columns is located in the office of the Missouri Governor in the Missouri State Capitol. The Columns are also featured in the Missouri House in a monumental stained-glass window titled "Missouri at Peace". A mural by George Caleb Bingham depicting Academic Hall was destroyed when the same burned. Academic