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 . nd Clontarf in the direction of Swords andMalahide ; while within the western circumference of the circle are many plea-sant spots in Kildare and Meath. The eastward scope of the circle embraces thefar-famed Bay of Dublin, the beauties of which have been enthusiastically laudedin prose and verse. Willis said its shores presented all the various features,from the rug
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 . nd Clontarf in the direction of Swords andMalahide ; while within the western circumference of the circle are many plea-sant spots in Kildare and Meath. The eastward scope of the circle embraces thefar-famed Bay of Dublin, the beauties of which have been enthusiastically laudedin prose and verse. Willis said its shores presented all the various features,from the rugged and severe to the soft and smiling, in landscape scenery. Hallsays it is at once safe, commodious and magnificent, with every variety of coast,sandy beach, rough sea promontory, undulating slope, terrific rock : and in delightexclaims, What a glorious impression of Ireland is conveyed to the eye and mindupon approaching the noble and beautiful Bay of Dublin! It is, indeed, inexpres-sibly lovely. Brewer, more than fifty years ago, said it presented so noble acombination of scenery, and affords at different points such attractive varieties,such fine interchanges of the soft and the august, that it has been often placed in. DUBLIN. 295 rivalry with the Bay of Naples, which in many natural circumstances it resem-bles. Though wanting in the lonely terrors of Vesuvius, he thought its charmsjustified the eulogy of Dr. Campbell, who said this single prospect would wellrepay a journey to Ireland ; an opinion which may not be deemed extravagant,when so talented and experienced a delineator of the picturesque as Creswickthe artist, in our own day, said that Dublin Bay, in an autumnal sunrise, pre-sented the finest prospect of nature he had ever seen. Of course so splendid atheme could not fail to inspire native talent to the exercise of pen and ^^sm^p^ pencil, but the fame of Dublin Bay, ^^ as our few quotations indicate, is safein the hands of foreign artists. The width of the bay, a
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