Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . 228 PICTURESQUE If Killery Harbor, agreat feature of the -westand the aim and end ofmuch touring, is within amile of Salruc Pass Onreaching this mountainbound estuary the roadturns to the east but ata sufificient altitude toafford a noble \ leu of itslongitudinal range andwhat Forbes calls itssingular environment byits mountainous being spell-
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . 228 PICTURESQUE If Killery Harbor, agreat feature of the -westand the aim and end ofmuch touring, is within amile of Salruc Pass Onreaching this mountainbound estuary the roadturns to the east but ata sufificient altitude toafford a noble \ leu of itslongitudinal range andwhat Forbes calls itssingular environment byits mountainous being spell-boundby its effect, we pause tosee and learn what causedit. The Killery is, wefind, a narrow arm of thesea extending some ten miles into the land between the counties of Gahvay andMayo, completely overhung by lofty mountains, nearly as elevated, and of aspicturesque form as any in Ireland. The Irish name appropriately indicates itas the reddish narrow sea-inlet. Inglis described it as resembling- a Norwegian yX Salruc Pass. GAL WA Y 229 fiord, but the lack of woods does not fill out the details of such a sensation experienced by Otway is realized by every tourist—that, whilesailing on the bay, locked in as you apparently are on ever
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