The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers . , and rise on the regular slopes of a high range of rockycoast. The part in front of Filekilly point rises in the middle,and sinks towards each end. The woods of Tomys here appearuncommonly fine. Open Innisfallen, which is composed atthis distance of the most various shades, within a broken out-line, entirely different from the other islands, groups of differ-ent masses rising in irregular
The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers . , and rise on the regular slopes of a high range of rockycoast. The part in front of Filekilly point rises in the middle,and sinks towards each end. The woods of Tomys here appearuncommonly fine. Open Innisfallen, which is composed atthis distance of the most various shades, within a broken out-line, entirely different from the other islands, groups of differ-ent masses rising in irregular tufts, and joined by lower pencil could mix a liappier assemblage. Land near a miser-able room, where travelers dine. Of the isle of Innisfallen, it is paying no great complimentto say it is the most beautiful in the kings dominions, andperhaps in Europe. It contains twenty acres of land, and hasevery variety that the range of beauty, unmixed with the sub-lime, can give. The general feature is that of wood; thesurface undulates into swelling hills, and sinks into littlevales; the slopes are in every direction, the declivities diegently away, forming those slight inequalities v/hicli are the. w > o ^ m h^ A TOUR IN IRELAND. 4337 greatest beauty of dressed grounds. The little valleys let inviews of the surrounding lake between the hills, while the swellsbreak the regular outline of the water, and give to the wholean agreeable confusion. The wood has all the variety intowhich nature has thrown the surface; in some parts it is sothick as to ajDpear impenetrable, and secludes all farther view;in others, it breaks into tufts of tall timber, under which cattlefeed. Here they open, as if to offer to the spectator the viewof the naked lawn; in others close, as if purposely to forbid amore prying examination. Trees of large size, and command-ing figure, form in some places natural arches; the ivy mixingwith the branches, and hanging across in festoons of foliage,while on one
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