1.   It is a sheer basalt rock cliff on which thousands of razor bills, guillemots, kittiwakes, shags and fulmars nest.

2.   A hundred and twenty troops swarmed over the bridge and secured a foothold under the basalt cliffs on the other side.

3.   A hundred and twenty troops swarmed across and secured a foothold under the basalt cliffs on the other side.

4.   Chinchar gazed at the basalt cliffs across the river and recalled leading his men across and throwing themselves into an abandoned German trench.

5.   Millions of people throng to the Columbia River Gorge each summer, most to view stunning waterfalls that drop from basalt cliffs framing both sides of the Columbia River.