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 . foaming throughthe bowlders far below, whichsometimes form narrow one side the mass of thickfoliage rising upward from thebrink of the river has called tomind Miltons line, Verdurous walls of Paradise upraised, while on the other hand thecharacter of some portions ofthe glen, with the unseen river,so far below the surface of thewoods in which it is lost, m
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 . foaming throughthe bowlders far below, whichsometimes form narrow one side the mass of thickfoliage rising upward from thebrink of the river has called tomind Miltons line, Verdurous walls of Paradise upraised, while on the other hand thecharacter of some portions ofthe glen, with the unseen river,so far below the surface of thewoods in which it is lost, mightsuggest without any extraordinary stretch of the imagination, it was a riverin some inner world, laid open by a Titanic throe, that had cracked asunderthe rocky crust of this shallow earth ;—the soil, and the deep-striking rootsof the trees terminating far above us, looking like a black rim on the inclosingprecipices. An eagerly sought glimpse of the troubled waters gives no silvery relief tothe solemn grandeur of their gloom, the stream taking a somber tinge from theshadow of the overhanging rocks and dense foliage. Advance but a few stepsand a delicious change meets the eye—the water breaking musically over blocks. Caicade in the Dargle. WICK LOW. 71 of granite, flinging up glistening spray, aud pouring forward in successive cas-cades, sometimes so narrow that you could easily spring over it, and then widen-ing into the placid dimensions of a miniature lake. Midway down the ravine is The Lovers Leap, a dizzy precipice, a greatheight over the river—from which there is a splendid prospect. From it everypart of the deep glen below is embraced, gradually expanding on the left tothe open champaign, with the blue sea in the distance ; and another charmingview of the Dargle is from the bottom of the Glen on the margin of one ofthe miniature lakes in which the waters are confined by a ledge of rocks. Look-ing up the stream the waters are seen tumbling over a rocky channel,
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