. Romantic Ireland . is hemmedWith purple hills around. At mornings dawn or evenings shadeThy glorys still the same:And ever will be so arrayed,With English tourists fame. 54 Romantic Ireland An enthusiastic American, who subscribedhimself as from New Jersey, has left the fol-lowing lines upon the register of the hotelat Glengarriff: ADIEU TO GLENGARRIFF Glengarriff! on thy shaded shoreIve wandered when the sun was high,Have seen the moonlit showers pourThrough thy umbrageous canopy: Glengarriff! might I but delay, I would not say good-bye to thee:Alas ! far distant is the dayWhen I thy charms
. Romantic Ireland . is hemmedWith purple hills around. At mornings dawn or evenings shadeThy glorys still the same:And ever will be so arrayed,With English tourists fame. 54 Romantic Ireland An enthusiastic American, who subscribedhimself as from New Jersey, has left the fol-lowing lines upon the register of the hotelat Glengarriff: ADIEU TO GLENGARRIFF Glengarriff! on thy shaded shoreIve wandered when the sun was high,Have seen the moonlit showers pourThrough thy umbrageous canopy: Glengarriff! might I but delay, I would not say good-bye to thee:Alas ! far distant is the dayWhen I thy charms again may , in the land remote of mine,Remembrance will thy grace renew,So, as thou canst not call me thine,Glengarriff ! loveliest, best, adieu! This valleyed and landlocked harbour ofGlengarriff terminates Bantry Bay, which,says Mr. Kipling, lies just to the eastwardof the Fastnet, that well-worn mile-post ofthe Atlantic liner/ In Kiplings Fleet in Being, which firstappeared in the Morning Post (London) in. HUNGRY HILL. Glengarriff and Bantry Bay 57 1898, and of which even this authors mostardent devotees appear too frequently to haveno knowledge, are to be found some wonder-ful bits of descriptions of Irish coast are recounted virile experiences andobservations on board the flag-ship of theChannel fleet during the autumn manoeuvres;and, from Lough Swilly in the north to BantryBay in the south, the author depicts, with amaster mariners fidelity, the characteristics ofthe coast-line, — its harbours, bays, headlands,and ports, — in so incomparable a fashionthat it is to him that we must accord the rap-idly increasing appreciation of, and interest in,the charms of Ireland as a tourist resort. Coupled with the charms of Glengarriffsbay is its sister attraction — no less winsome— of the monarch mountain of these parts,Sliabhna-goil {i. e., the Mountain of theWild People ), more commonly called SugarLoaf. Why it is so named is, of course,obvious to a
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