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 . hanging gardens would realize theBosphorus. Arthur Young thought this neighborhood preferable in many re-spects to anything hehad seen in Ireland, andone of the latest observ-ers. Sir John Forbes,says it would be difficultto overpraise the beautyof the Lee from Corkto Queenstown. , to use his ownwords, every elementof beauty that can min-gle in such a scenese
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 . hanging gardens would realize theBosphorus. Arthur Young thought this neighborhood preferable in many re-spects to anything hehad seen in Ireland, andone of the latest observ-ers. Sir John Forbes,says it would be difficultto overpraise the beautyof the Lee from Corkto Queenstown. , to use his ownwords, every elementof beauty that can min-gle in such a sceneseemed to be here com-prised ; we had a streamever varying in its courseand outline, of amplebreadth, yet not toobroad to prevent distinctrecognition of the ob-jects on its banks ; wa-ter of a color and pu-rity like the sea ; loftybarriers on either sidecovered with rich woods,and intermingled withgreen, park-like fieldsand shining villas; hereand there white villageson level patches of shore ;and the whole animated, and, as it were, humanized by the peopled steamerssweeping up and down, the boats and yachts sailing or pulling about, and a ship ortwo at anchor (decked out in their national flags) in every bay that opened out. The Mathciu lower.
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