. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Ex)clc 41 42 40 4i <2 40 40. o^K 38 2 Miles. Head, we enter the bay which is bounded on the east by Clear Island,and whose entrance is proclaimed afar by a lighthouse on Fastnet , on an estuary of that bay, has some coasting trade ; but Baltimore,nearer to the open sea, although it has given its name to a great American city. 432 THE BRITISH ISLES. is merely a fishing village, in former ages exposed to the ravages of Algerianman-stealers. Still proceeding eastward along the coast, we pass Rosscarhery,a small cathedral town, and
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . Ex)clc 41 42 40 4i <2 40 40. o^K 38 2 Miles. Head, we enter the bay which is bounded on the east by Clear Island,and whose entrance is proclaimed afar by a lighthouse on Fastnet , on an estuary of that bay, has some coasting trade ; but Baltimore,nearer to the open sea, although it has given its name to a great American city. 432 THE BRITISH ISLES. is merely a fishing village, in former ages exposed to the ravages of Algerianman-stealers. Still proceeding eastward along the coast, we pass Rosscarhery,a small cathedral town, and Clonahilty, a small town with coasting trade andfisheries, and reach Kinnale, the port of the Bandon valley, which, like Gahvay,can still show a few Spanish mansions dating back to a time when Kinsale belongedto Spain. For more than two centuries, from 1381 to 1601, Galicians and Cas-tilians kept up frequent intercourse between this Irish town and their own ports. Fig. 214.—Cork an Admiralty Chart. Scale 1 : 178, .^ Miles. Bandon, the principal town on the river of that name, has a little woollen , is a village on the Upper Bandon. Cork, the third city of Ireland in population and commerce, occupied until theearly Middle Ages a small village, which the Irish called Corroch, or Swamp,owing to the nature of the soil upon which it stood. Subsequently this villagebecame the capital of Munster. The old city occupies an island of the river Lee,and several bridges place it in connection with the extensive suburbs on bothbanks. Other islands are covered with gardens and public promenades. Cork MUNSTEE. 433 is a place of some industry, and amongst other articles supplies Limerickgloves. It has also some pretensions to be considered a seat of learningand art, for it possesses a Queens College, a museum, a public library, anda number of learned societies. As the river Lee only admits vessels of 600tons, the principal harbour of the town has been establis
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