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compared to a fowl's, and which generally contains a quanti- 

 ty of small shell-fish of three or four kinds ; and though in 

 those I caught the stomachs were full of these shell-fish, yet 

 they rose greedily to the fly. The common trouts of these 

 lakes have stomachs like other trouts, which never, as far as 

 my experience has gone, contain shell-fish ; but of the gil- 

 laroo trout I have caught some, not larger than my finger, 

 which have had as perfect a hard stomach as the larger ones, 

 with the coats as thick in proportion, and the same shells 

 within ; so that this animal is at least now a distinct species, 

 and is a sort of link between the trout and char, which has a 

 stomach of the same kind with the gillaroo, but not quite so 

 thick, and which feeds at the bottom in the same way. I 

 have often looked in the lakes abroad for gillaroo trout, but 

 never found one." ^ 



From Rosscarberry to Cloghnakilty the country is pretty 

 generally cultivated, and a good deal of wheat was in ear. — 

 Near the town of Cloghnakilty 1 obtained a fine view down 

 the bay of the same name.^ From thence I proceeded to Ban- 

 don. Near Innisshannon the country is picturesque, and 

 the banks of the river Bandon are finely wooded. On ap- 

 proaching Cork I found the immediate neighbourhood well 

 cultivated, and intersected with hedge-rows as in England. 

 There are a great number of trees in the hedge-rows, and 

 these were shrouded up the sides, a horrible practice, long 

 sanctioned by fashion throughout England, but seldom ob- 

 servable in the sister island, where trees are too scarce and 

 valuable to be treated in this ignominious and injurious 

 manner. 



I believe a tourist might write a good chapter on the town 

 of Cork, its magnificent jail, its innumerable cars, its splen- 

 did horses, and its rapid river; but I will not treat on these 

 topics farther than to say that it is a good-looking town, and 

 contains 100,000 inhabitants. The river or creek below Cork 

 is very pretty, the hilly banks 'being loaded with luxuriant 

 shrubberies and tasty-looking houses. The town of Cove is 

 prettily situated on an island called Great Island, and is about 

 ten miles nearer the sea. Its houses are covered with a Mac- 

 kintosh of slate to shoot off the rain, which is here nearly in- 

 cessant. The view of Cork Harbour from the upper part of 

 Cove town is very fine. 



At low water, a considerable space of mud being left un- 

 covered, I had an opportunity of observing the extreme bold- 

 ness of the curlews, crows, and sea-gulls, which come in 



' Salmonia.^ 



