from Vapours, Fogs, Mi/Is, &?c* 539 



the town of Youghal, in the county of Cork, Ireland, in the 

 years 1796, 1797? and 1801, according to the annexed views 

 (fee Plate VI II.) drawn on the fpot by a young lady, one 

 among numbers of the fpe&ators. The fhit was feen on the 

 2 1 It of October 1796, about four o'clock in the afternoon, 

 the fun clear: it appeared on a hill, on the county of Water- 

 ford fi'de of the river, and feemed a walled town with a round 

 tower, and a church with a fpire ; the houfes perfect, and 

 the windows diftinct. Behind the houfes appeared the maft 

 of a (hip, and in the front a tingle tree, near which was a 

 cow grazing; whilft the Waterford hills appeared diftinc~tly 

 behind. In the fpace of about half an hour the fpire and 

 round tower became covered with domes, and the octagonal 

 building, or rather round tower, became a broken turret. 

 Soon after this change, all the houfes became ruins, and 

 their fragments feemed Scattered in the field near the walls : 

 the whole in about an hour difappeared, and the hill on 

 which it flood funk to the level of the real field. The hill 

 and trees appeared of a bright green, the houfes and towers 

 of a clear brown, with their roofs blue. 



On the 9th of March 1797, another fimilar phsenomenon 

 was obferved by the fame perfon, in company with fever al 

 others, about eight o'clock in the morning, on thefea, fouth- 

 eaft of the town of Youghal. It had the appearance of a 

 walled town fituated on a hill. On one fide were houfes in 

 ruins, and the ruins of a caftle which feemed to fall into the 

 fea. In the middle were two towers broken, on one of which 

 was a flag flying, with houfes in ruins between them and 

 the caftle. On the fouth were walls and a round tower with 

 windows, which appeared broken in the middle. Tge hill 

 on which the whole fcene was placed was green and brown, 

 and the buildings purple and brown, clear and brilliant, 

 much refembling a tranfparent painting. The wall which 

 furrounded the town was of a darker brown, with great holes 

 as if made by cannon fhot. The fea was calm and ferene, 

 and the whole together formed a charming view; but it is 

 not known how long the fcene continued, as the party was 

 obliged to leave the ftrand before it vanifhed. What in- 

 creased the beautv of the fcene was the finenefs of the morn- 

 ing, and the (hips which appeared to pafs behind it. 



In June 1 801, about five o'clock on a fine morning, all the 

 coaft oppofite the river of Youghal, on the Waterford fide, 

 was covered with a denfc vapour: that on the right next the 

 fea had the reprefentation of an alpine country ; the diftant 

 fcarpy mountains feemed covered with fnow, whilft the fore- 

 ground, of a brown colour, refembled woods and a cultivated 



Y % country. 



