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 . d; andsoon we reach that one pointwhich is ever memorable in thejourney—like Inspiration Point over the Valley of the Yosemite—that at whichthe lakes in all their resplendent beauty first burst iipon the sight. Those whoenter by any other than the Kenmare road can form but a faint conceptionof the sensation inspired by the magnificence of this first view they havemi
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 . d; andsoon we reach that one pointwhich is ever memorable in thejourney—like Inspiration Point over the Valley of the Yosemite—that at whichthe lakes in all their resplendent beauty first burst iipon the sight. Those whoenter by any other than the Kenmare road can form but a faint conceptionof the sensation inspired by the magnificence of this first view they havemissed. From an eminence near the police station, a picturesque castle in min-iature, the upper lake in all its splendor lies revealed far, far below, with themiddle and lower lakes in the distance. Crossing Galways Bridge, within soundof Derrycunnihy Cascade, we pass through the Tunnel under a declivity ofCrom-aglan Mountain, and traversing two sides, the west and north, of the base ofTore Mountain, reach Tore Cascade. Entering the path to the fall it leads up agravel walk so lined with trees and shrubs—larch, on one side, and holly, birch,oak, alder, and arbutus on the other, and judiciously curved that the cascade is. The Tunnel. * Wakemans Archteologia Flibcrnica, p. loo. A model of this fort is in the Royal Dublin Society. f Dallans, pillar-stones variously used as objects of worship, monuments, boundaries, etc. Cromlechs, composedof three or more stones forming an inclosure, over which a large stone is laid. They were for sepulchral and sacri-ficial uses. 8 PICTURESQUE IRELAND. concealed until the spectator is immediately under and opposite to it. The water,Avhich is supplied from Mangerton and the Devils Punch Bowl, is forced in asheet of foam over a broken wall of rock some seventy feet high, forming sev-
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