. The earth and its inhabitants .. . C-s ?^ Qti fy ^^sss^yy , fiHii^A#^.. WofGr 10 Miles. on a river of the same name, is a market town. Elphin, farther south, is an oldepiscopal city. Roscommon, with the ruins of an abbey and a castle, manufacturescoarse earthenware. The county of Galway is divided by Loughs Mask and Corrib into two well-marked regions. To tbe west lie the wild mountain land of Joyces Country,Connemara, and Jar Connaught; whilst in the east a plain extends to the Shannon,broken only towards the south-east, where Slieve Aughty, on Lough Derg, risesto a height of 1,243 feet. Qa
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . C-s ?^ Qti fy ^^sss^yy , fiHii^A#^.. WofGr 10 Miles. on a river of the same name, is a market town. Elphin, farther south, is an oldepiscopal city. Roscommon, with the ruins of an abbey and a castle, manufacturescoarse earthenware. The county of Galway is divided by Loughs Mask and Corrib into two well-marked regions. To tbe west lie the wild mountain land of Joyces Country,Connemara, and Jar Connaught; whilst in the east a plain extends to the Shannon,broken only towards the south-east, where Slieve Aughty, on Lough Derg, risesto a height of 1,243 feet. Qalway, at the mouth of the river which drains Lough Corrib, and on thenorth shore of a wide bay, occupies a favourable position for commerce, and asearly as the fourteenth century, soon after its foundation by an English colony, itcarried on a brisk trade with Spain. Andalusians and Gastilians established 420 THE BRITISH ISLES. themselves in tlio Irish city, and their influence became so great that Gal way, inthe aspect of many of its old mansions, reminds the traveller
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