228 The Irish Naturalist. 



rises to a height of 500 feet, crowned with the remains of an 

 old fortification, from which is gained its name of Cashelmore, 

 and close by is the cottage where Miss Patterson was born, 

 who subsequently married Jerome Bonaparte, but was divorced 

 by Napoleon's orders, living on to the advanced age of 93. 



The scenery about Mulroy recalls the Scottish Highlands, 

 "with its tumbled masses of grey rocks, Heather, Mountain Ash, 

 and every kind of brushwood, and Mr. Delap drew our atten- 

 tion to the Wood Vetch clambering and blossoming above the 

 bushes. As we approached Moross Castle we saw the rest of 

 the party waiting in the ferry-boat, having already examined 

 the extraordinarily contorted schistose rocks upon which 

 Moross Castle is built, which are puckered and frilled in leafy 

 layers, most tempting to cameras and the hammers of amateur 

 geologists ! 



Mulroy Bay is net only perplexing from its windings, also 

 remarkable for its tidal arrangements ; even twenty-two miles 

 from its mouth there is a rise of eight feet, whilst there is an 

 hour's difference in high tide between the outer and inner 

 waters. At a narrow part called the " Hasseins" the tide 

 pouring over a kind of sill of schistose quartzite is only seven- 

 and-a-half feet deep, and within a boat's length outside is 

 water sixty-two feet in depth ! No wonder a special steamer 

 had to be built to navigate such a passage as this. 



Time pressed, and we were remorselessly hurried across 

 the ferry, and traversing the peninsula " Between the 

 Waters " soon reached Rowross Ferry, crossed to I^ord 

 I,eitrim's pier, and drove through Carrigart and across the 

 sandy bay to Rossgull peninsula, lying between Mulroy and 

 Sheephaven, where Rosapenna hotel, a picturesque Nor- 

 wegian wooden structure, nestling among sandhills replete 

 with kitchen-middens and putting-greens, was our destina- 

 tion. 



After dinner most of the party were kindly conducted by 

 the Rev. Father Gallagher to the ruins of Mevagh and its 

 weatherbeaten stone cross, returning over the summit of 

 Ganiamore (682 feet). But some of us wished to visit Sheep- 

 haven, and w 7 hilst waiting for a boat watched with much 

 interest the embarkation of Messrs. Welch and Wilson with 

 their cameras in a curach to photograph the contorted quartzite 

 strata of Muslac, which Mr. Welch has kindly allowed to be 



