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 . over a series of rocky walls and ledges into a deep pool, called in Irish Poul-a-phuca, the pool of the Pooka, or Pucks hole; the Irish elf Phuca—an odd mix-ture of merriment and malignity, being a counterpart, if not prototype of Puck the merry wanderer of the night. A picturesque bridge of a single arch—sixty-five feet—has been thrown over the gorge, and adds to t
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 . over a series of rocky walls and ledges into a deep pool, called in Irish Poul-a-phuca, the pool of the Pooka, or Pucks hole; the Irish elf Phuca—an odd mix-ture of merriment and malignity, being a counterpart, if not prototype of Puck the merry wanderer of the night. A picturesque bridge of a single arch—sixty-five feet—has been thrown over the gorge, and adds to the scenic effect. Fineviews can be obtained from a banqueting-room below the falls, and from a cotabove the bridge. The breadth of the gorge between the rocks is forty feet, andthe height from which the waters successively fall from the upper stage beyondthe bridge, i8o feet. The chasm under and below the bridge widens to a ravine,and the river Liffey spreads over a rugged bed for some distance, and thentakes a graceful course to Ballymore Eustace ; through Kildare and Dublin,where we shall agrain meet it in some charmino- scenes. The Glints Gxie Cxusewxy The County of Antrim is famous for the remarkable and magnificent coastrange which presents such wonderful features to the eye of art and sciencealmost throughout the entire extent of its ocean boundary from the mouth ofthe Lagan to the mouth of the Bann. This region has long been a subject ofinquiry and delight to geologists, philosophers, scientists, artists and mountains which are highest along the coast are not only strikingly pictur-esque, but are peculiarly attractive in displaying the strata of which their windand wave wracked steeps are formed. The Giants Causeway, one of the, in•every sense, monumental wonders of Antrim—not to say of all nature—is evea 109 no PICTURESQUE IRELAND. enhanced by the promontories, rocks, cliffs, caves and ruins in its vicinity. To>convey some general id
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