. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . e of a great port that has been created inspite of natural difficulties. As for the general appearance of the place, it is one of thecleanest among manufacturing towns. Its situation, too, onBelfast Lough is picturesque, and there are fine views of theGreat Cave Hill, which overhangs the town and silhouettesagainst the sky a strange likeness of Napoleons profile. Still it is not a town which will commend itself much to the pleasure seeker, and except for the interest of CarrickfergusI would recommend you to end your tour at Larne. But whether you
. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . e of a great port that has been created inspite of natural difficulties. As for the general appearance of the place, it is one of thecleanest among manufacturing towns. Its situation, too, onBelfast Lough is picturesque, and there are fine views of theGreat Cave Hill, which overhangs the town and silhouettesagainst the sky a strange likeness of Napoleons profile. Still it is not a town which will commend itself much to the pleasure seeker, and except for the interest of CarrickfergusI would recommend you to end your tour at Larne. But whether you stop at Larne or Belfast, you will havecome a far way from the wild places of the West, where thefew human habitations are the tiny scattered white-washedcottages with a row of projecting stones back and front letinto the walls to moor the thatch against the storm winds ofthe Atlantic. Each is different; East and West, Celt andSaxon or Scot, Catholic and Presbyterian, have not harmonisedtoo well at times ; but the union in disunion of the two. Lame. 2Qo EAST AND WEST CM. XIX makes up modern Ireland, a country which is young yet;which, as Curran said, will never be rotten till it is ripe. Andwhether in West or East .the tourist will, I hope, find besidesmuch natural beauty, a common element of Irish character ina ready and kindly welcome.
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