. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . is oneof the two markets for the homespuns whose production hasbeen so energetically developed of late years. But of thesematters I shall speak elsewhere in some detail. Scenery is thebusiness of the moment. To see Slieve League is possible bythe use of a boat, a pony, or your legs : not by a bicycle. Irecommend a boat for all this cliff scenery, time and weatherpermitting; there is said to be a cave of extraordinary dimensionsin the Slieve League cliff. But I must describe the thing as Isaw it from on foot. Leaving the hotel, one walks down a roa
. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . is oneof the two markets for the homespuns whose production hasbeen so energetically developed of late years. But of thesematters I shall speak elsewhere in some detail. Scenery is thebusiness of the moment. To see Slieve League is possible bythe use of a boat, a pony, or your legs : not by a bicycle. Irecommend a boat for all this cliff scenery, time and weatherpermitting; there is said to be a cave of extraordinary dimensionsin the Slieve League cliff. But I must describe the thing as Isaw it from on foot. Leaving the hotel, one walks down a road which follows theswift and rocky course of the Glen River seawards for about twomiles; then a track turns off to the right up which ponies cancarry a lady almost to the very top. A few hundred yardsfurther on a road branches away also to the right, towardswhat simply appears to be a very high mountain with a sharplyserrated ridge defined against the sky. The other side of thatmountain is a precipitous cliff varying from 1,000 to 2,000 feet,. Coiiiifig down Stiez>e League. 64 THE FISHERY CHAT. and part of the serrated ridge is the One Mans Path. Allthe water you can see from here is the estuary winding down toTeelin Harbour, and beyond that the mouth of Donegal Baywith the Sligo mountains showing blue on the far side. Theroad goes on for a considerable way and turns into a path upwhich a donkey can travel ; I made the journey in companywith a man who was going up to cut turf. Here in GlenColumbkille parish they get their firing free, but they have to goa far way for it in some cases. A few of the more fortunate cancut on their own farms : my companion had to ascend at leasta thousand feet before he reached his own particular bog ; yetthere are plenty less lucky than he, for they have not all donkeysto carry the sods. He was a fisherman by trade and belonged tothe crew of a yawl, one of the row-boats which go out to fish forcod, ling, and mackerel off this rocky coast. They
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