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 . rupted prospect of very greatextent. The huge masses ofmasonry, scattered in pictur-esque confusion, form a sug-gestive contrast to the tran-quil beauty of the surrounding scene. A noteworthy curiosity is one of those gravel-ridges called eskers, whichin some parts is not more than one hundred feet wide at the base, and slopesgradually to a width of twenty to thirty
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 . rupted prospect of very greatextent. The huge masses ofmasonry, scattered in pictur-esque confusion, form a sug-gestive contrast to the tran-quil beauty of the surrounding scene. A noteworthy curiosity is one of those gravel-ridges called eskers, whichin some parts is not more than one hundred feet wide at the base, and slopesgradually to a width of twenty to thirty feet. It extends for nearly six milesthrough the Queens County, and, with some breaks, for some twenty-five milesthrough Kings County. It gives the idea of a made road through the bog ofAllen, and, on examination, is found to be composed of limestone, water-wornpebbles, and gravel, such as is met with on the sea-shore or the margin of alarge lake. It is planted in some places, and there is a road on it near Mary-borough, from which it runs in the direction of Mount Mellick, a neat Quakertown, the station of a branch of the Grand Canal from Dublin, on which travelingby fly-boat was much in use, before the days of Canal Fly-Boat.
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