. Romantic Ireland . feet into the air,and then the tints! Sometimes a clear greenwave would roll its huge volume on the rocksbefore it broke; at others, dash greenly up toit and dissolve in wreaths of purest whitespray, causing, as it broke, a delicate iris toglow on the opposite rocks; while toward thewest a veil of foam overhung the coast, lightedup by the golden rays of the setting sun. Nowbrds can describe the fascination of thescene. To observe the contrast between nature andthe works of man, one has only to visit theisolated premises of the Anglo-American Tele-graph Company. The manner
. Romantic Ireland . feet into the air,and then the tints! Sometimes a clear greenwave would roll its huge volume on the rocksbefore it broke; at others, dash greenly up toit and dissolve in wreaths of purest whitespray, causing, as it broke, a delicate iris toglow on the opposite rocks; while toward thewest a veil of foam overhung the coast, lightedup by the golden rays of the setting sun. Nowbrds can describe the fascination of thescene. To observe the contrast between nature andthe works of man, one has only to visit theisolated premises of the Anglo-American Tele-graph Company. The manner in which elec-tricity outstrips the sun in his daily round ishere strikingly exemplified. Happening to bein the instrument-room at about eleven oclockin the forenoon, one sees the operators at work,receiving from, say, Berlin, the reports of thedays markets, and transmitting the informa-tion to New York, to be served up fresh onUncle Sams breakfast-table, which, even atthat early hour is already old news in the East-. Around the Coast to Limerick 95 era world. Lying just inside Valentia Islandis Cahirciveen, the birthplace of Daniel OCon-nell, and from this point to Dingle, across thebay, is to be seen — though from the seawardside only — the finest rock scenery on thesouthwest coast. Here Nature seems to havedone her best to produce the picturesque withocean and rock, twisted and split, pierced andtunnelled; every rock seems to have been tornin some gigantic struggle against total de-struction, and left to still wage war againststorm and tempest. The harbour of Dingle,landlocked and peaceful, is in quiet contrastto all this turmoil, though Dingles weeklycattle fair will give the stranger the impressionthat he is witnessing something very akin tothe fabled Donnybrook Fair, so far as riotousgood humour is concerned. From Slea Head a magnificent view ofDingle Bay is obtained, — its indented shoresflanked by the Dingle mountains stretchingaway for thirty miles of wonderful p
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