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 . and by the bold outlines of the GraniteHills, over which tower Semaphor, Kearsarge, andMonadnock—made the ascent of Mangerton, andhas given us his impressions f of the view fromthe summit. Here, he says, we had a magnificent pros-pect in all directions, as far as the eye could reach,except a small space at the west, toward Derrynane—the former residence ofOConnell,
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 . and by the bold outlines of the GraniteHills, over which tower Semaphor, Kearsarge, andMonadnock—made the ascent of Mangerton, andhas given us his impressions f of the view fromthe summit. Here, he says, we had a magnificent pros-pect in all directions, as far as the eye could reach,except a small space at the west, toward Derrynane—the former residence ofOConnell, which was hidden by the highest peak in Ireland, Carran Tual, and Magillicuddys Reeks, which stand ^^ ;:^ _^^^^^ like towers of defense about their ^ ^^^^^^^^* ;Tr^^^ —-, royal master. North of them, —^_ beyond a fine, undulating country^ ^-;.i~ — we could see Dingle Bay ; and on the south, over rough, barrenhills, cut in pieces by deep widening vales, lay, in glossybrightness, the Bay of Kenmare,and a little further, over anotherrough range, through which wecould trace the celebrated andromantic Glengariff, was Bantry Bay, and still further. Cape Clear and the broad Profile of Rocks at Devils The Flesk River. * A Series of Papers, A Run through the South of Ireland, in the Dublin Saturday Magazine, 1865-6, has givenus some good hints, practical, descriptive, and otherwise. t Ireland as I Saw It, by William S. Balch, New York, 1850. 46 PICTURESQUE IRELAND.
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