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 . coast road in this section leading intoand from Glenarm has commanded enthusiastic approval. In its construction,according to the commissioners report, two peculiar difficulties presented them-selves—one the necessity of constructing the road under a considerable extent ofrocks some hundreds of feet in height, and with its base washed by the open sea:and the
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 . coast road in this section leading intoand from Glenarm has commanded enthusiastic approval. In its construction,according to the commissioners report, two peculiar difficulties presented them-selves—one the necessity of constructing the road under a considerable extent ofrocks some hundreds of feet in height, and with its base washed by the open sea:and the other its passage along portions of very steep hills of moving clay banks. About 30,000 cubic yards of rock have been hurled down on the shore, and theroad, ten feet above the highest tides, has been floored, partly upon the loose, andpartly upon the solid rock. If the engineer had worked with a poet and painterat his back, he could not have laid out its course more agreeably to the eyeand to the imagination. It is constructed with equal skill, taste and enterprise;cliffs cut through, chasms crossed, watercourses walled and bridged—a roughly-ribbed and jagged coast, in short, traversed by a road as smooth and almost as. Barbican of Anil 1 128 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. level as a tennis court. We have been surprised at the excellence of the roadsall over Ireland, but by none so agreeably as this. * The view from the summit of any of the hills surrounding Glenarm is sur-passingly beautiful. Looking toward the sea, the Mull of Cantyre, the Scottishmainland stretches in the distance, upon which, even in moderately clear weather—says Wakeman—not only the fields but even the neatly white-washed housesare distinctly visible. The village is nestled in a romantic glen, surrounded bywoods and watered by a troutful stream. Its chief architectural feature is thecastle, which represents a still older structure of which some remains are still extant, and which was ___^ ;r^^ for many years
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