. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . ouristdescends to Balscadden Bay, where a bathing-liouse built of stonestood, and climbs from it to the cliff where Pucks Rock displays the fiend in adamantine bonds, On the way the great cave,in which seals then concealed their young, is entered, and aninhabitant of Howth, who was wont to encounter there single-handed these amphibious foes, is recalled. Avoiding the mostdangerous path, where, says the poet, Oft to the mouldering cliff like bat Ive clung, Unai
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . ouristdescends to Balscadden Bay, where a bathing-liouse built of stonestood, and climbs from it to the cliff where Pucks Rock displays the fiend in adamantine bonds, On the way the great cave,in which seals then concealed their young, is entered, and aninhabitant of Howth, who was wont to encounter there single-handed these amphibious foes, is recalled. Avoiding the mostdangerous path, where, says the poet, Oft to the mouldering cliff like bat Ive clung, Unaiile to advance, scarce power to retreat,Whilst in my ear the dreadful surges sung, And screaming sea-mews marked my doubtful fate, the tourist is conducted to a platform of the old lighthouse, wherethe poet pictures for him a storm. Then, ascending to the Baily bythe grass slope, down which clinkers from the lighthouse fire rolled,he sees the rocks, a giant offspring from the parent cleft, and thecave formerly much used as a receptacle for smuggled goods ; and, At that time, according to the poet, the Castle was called the J<UJj^C,-^.<,„ rfy: I:, THE HARBOUR civca 1790
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