. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . Iona, and set to evangelising the barbarousScots and Britons. English people when they hear this suppose that it is somesort of joke ; but the historic fact remains that, from the begin-ning of the sixth century to the end of the eighth, Ireland was theUniversity of Europe just as Greece was in the late days of theRoman Republic. Si monumentum quarts, circumspice. JohnGillespie, who showed me over the place, will no doubt do thesame for you if you ask him ; he is lame, but to judge from myexperience can tire out most walkers on our mountains. Hewi
. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . Iona, and set to evangelising the barbarousScots and Britons. English people when they hear this suppose that it is somesort of joke ; but the historic fact remains that, from the begin-ning of the sixth century to the end of the eighth, Ireland was theUniversity of Europe just as Greece was in the late days of theRoman Republic. Si monumentum quarts, circumspice. JohnGillespie, who showed me over the place, will no doubt do thesame for you if you ask him ; he is lame, but to judge from myexperience can tire out most walkers on our mountains. Hewill show you first the nearest of twelve crosses which areset within a range of three miles in the Glen. These crossesare erect stone slabs graved with Celtic designs—which anillustration can best make familiar. Some of them are greatly V CELTIC CROSSES 7i weather-worn, some scarcely distinguishable, but all are treatedwith veneration. As we went up the Glen I marvelled more thanever at the flowers; bluebells everywhere—I saw evensomewhite. Stone Cross, Columlkilk. ones ; marsh marigolds ; orchises bright purple or pale and livid ;white pignuts; a few surviving primroses, and a few early flagirises ; I saw even one foxglove that day—May 29—but it was atCarrick. There were all the vetches from the tiny yellow ladies 72 STONE HERMITAGES CHAT. finger to the taller purple kinds ; a handsome purple thornlessthistle ; bog cotton, of course, and the fragrant bog myrtle onboggy heather slopes, and a queer little fleshy pink flower, almostlike a great lichen in its leaf, whose name I have forgot. Inthe ditches were purple bog violets with their picturesque mot-tled leaf; and above all, by the little river which runs up theGlen—as also by the Carrick River—quantities of Osmundagrowing already to a lordly height. It reaches six or seven valley is full of a swamp, a great place for snipe, Gillespietold me ; a great place also for otters, which abound in thisregion both
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