. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . un downto Bunbeg and Derrybeg, unless you take them on your way toDunfanaghy. From Gweedore to Bunbeg it is an easy four miles of fairlygood road; on the left you have the Clady River, with itssuccession of delightful swirling streams and pools. Theharbour of Bunbeg is singularly picturesque; a little lake ofsalt water shut in by high rocks on all sides, and entered bythe narrowest cleft that it would seem possible to get a good-sized vessel through. Over the harbourmasters office you willtrace Lord George Hills hand in the inscription from Prover
. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . un downto Bunbeg and Derrybeg, unless you take them on your way toDunfanaghy. From Gweedore to Bunbeg it is an easy four miles of fairlygood road; on the left you have the Clady River, with itssuccession of delightful swirling streams and pools. Theharbour of Bunbeg is singularly picturesque; a little lake ofsalt water shut in by high rocks on all sides, and entered bythe narrowest cleft that it would seem possible to get a good-sized vessel through. Over the harbourmasters office you willtrace Lord George Hills hand in the inscription from Proverbs,set up there in Irish, A just weight is a pleasure to the Lord, X BUNBEG 147 but an unequal balance is an abomination in His sight. Iasked a knot of men there to interpret it for me, and after someconfusion elicited the fact that they all spoke Irish, but noneof them could read the character. The tongue survives every-where in speech only, and most of the Gaelic tradition passesexclusively from lip to lip. By the way, you will need to ride. Bnnbeg Quay. warily as you go to the harbour, or you will be apt to findyourself shot over the quayhead. Plenty of the yawls whichthe fishermen of these parts use lie by the quay, but no biggerboats ; and the local opinion is that fishing in these watersmust be confined closely to the shore, for nothing except areally large vessel can hope to ride out all weathers, and thereis a plentiful lack of shelter to run to. L 2 i48 THE BATTERING RAM CHAP. Leaving Bunbeg, you take a road running eastward along thecoast to Derrybeg, about two miles off; you will know whenyou get there by a very steep and rather tortuous hill, on whichthere is more than the usual chance of meeting a cow or donkey,owing to the presence of some cabins halfway down. Atthe hills foot a small stream flows under a bridge, and in thetiny hollow of a gorge is Derrybeg chapel, unhappily too wellknown. In this hollow, when the penal laws existed, the peopleof the district asse
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