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 . as if some viewless hand had traced An airy palace on the sky ; and nearer, to the east, the mountains of Ayrshire and the crags of Arran seemsoftened by distance into an almost ethereal tinge of blue ; while westward, thesharp bluffs of the receding headlands of the Causeway jut out one by one, untilthey conduct the eye across to the point of Innishowen Head and th
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 . as if some viewless hand had traced An airy palace on the sky ; and nearer, to the east, the mountains of Ayrshire and the crags of Arran seemsoftened by distance into an almost ethereal tinge of blue ; while westward, thesharp bluffs of the receding headlands of the Causeway jut out one by one, untilthey conduct the eye across to the point of Innishowen Head and the moun-tains of Donegal, still more faintly blue than the Scottish mountains to the descending from Fair Head towards Ballycastle we pass two small lakes—Caolin and Crossa—near the edge of the precipice, and nearly five hundred feetabove the sea. The celebrated Whin-dyke of Carrig Maur opens a passage forthe waters which precipitate themselves over the cliff, forming a scanty but attimes pretty waterfall dripping fantastically from the brow of the dingy rocksinto the ocean.* Not far from the promontory is a little settlement, with theremains of a factory, which is known as the Salt-Pans, a view of which adds to. Ilu Salt Pans *See Tours in Ulster: a Handbook to the Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Ireland. By J. B. Doyle. Withnumerous illustrations. Dublin, 1854, ANTRIM. 137
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