. Stories and legends of travel and history, for children . FTER leaving Limerick, we^ returned to Dublin, and there^^ took a carriage, for a littie tourin the neighboring county ofWicklow. Wicklow has been called The Garden ofIreland, for the beauty of its scenery and thehigh cultivation of a large portion of its 252 wicKLOw. It is full of romantic valleys and streams, lakes,glens, and waterfalls—varied by rugged, un-tamable wilds, and bleak, barren mountains. We first visited the Dargle, or GlenisloraneRiver, upon Lord Powerscourts domain. Thiswould be thought a small specimen of a
. Stories and legends of travel and history, for children . FTER leaving Limerick, we^ returned to Dublin, and there^^ took a carriage, for a littie tourin the neighboring county ofWicklow. Wicklow has been called The Garden ofIreland, for the beauty of its scenery and thehigh cultivation of a large portion of its 252 wicKLOw. It is full of romantic valleys and streams, lakes,glens, and waterfalls—varied by rugged, un-tamable wilds, and bleak, barren mountains. We first visited the Dargle, or GlenisloraneRiver, upon Lord Powerscourts domain. Thiswould be thought a small specimen of a riverwith us, as, except when the waters are swoUenwith a jfreshet, it is but a narrow and shallowmountain stream. But in Ireland it passes atsuch times for a mighty torrent, and at all timesis greatly admired and respected. It runs very rapidly, with bright sparkles andpleasant murmurs, down a deep rocky ravine,whose jagged sides are overgrown with mossand ferns, and overhung with luxuriant fol-iage. A path leads up the glen to the is co
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