44 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1835 



Aug. 24. Lady Burke and Charles Burke having gone to Galway 

 to meet Lord Mulgrave, we walked round the neighbourhood of 

 Marble Hill, particularly near to a lake, but found little. 



A%i(j. 25. Started at 7 a.m. for Galway. The country particularly 

 remarkable for the quantity of stones with which it is covered ; it 

 has a very dreary aspect. Galway is a large old town, with many 

 curious houses of great antiquity. In the fish market we noticed 

 a great quantity of sea-bream, split and dried. From the bridge 

 saw a number of fine salmon, at the bottom of the river, on their 

 way to Lough Corrib. Started by the mail car for Oughterard ; 

 the car was the most rough conveyance I ever was upon. Oughterard 

 is a very pretty place, having a small waterfall close to it. Found 

 Utricularia media in a bog beyond the town. In the evening called 

 upon Dr. Kirwan, the parish priest of this place. He is a very nice 

 gentleman-like person. ... he gave us much useful information. 



Aug. 26. After breakfast crossed the river, and found in the 

 bog Rhyncliospora fusca in plenty, B. alba formed, Avith Eleoclmns 

 paniciflcn-a, nearly the whole of the vegetation of the bogs. Droseiu 

 longifolia, anglica, and rotundifolia were common. * Menziesia dabeocia 

 in plenty on the hills. After passing a part of the rocky mountain 

 land, we found at a lake Eriocaulon septangulare in plenty. Returned 

 by the river, and then through a cornfield, in which we found Fedia 

 carinata. In the evening we went to a castle, curiously situated 

 upon a natural bridge over a small river ; the architecture was- 

 singular, and the whole in good preservation. The country was 

 most interesting, on account of its being limestone, full of caverns 

 in horizontal strata, and forming natural bridges in many places. 



Aug. 27. Found an Aspidium, perhaps cristatum, in the bog. 



Aiig. 28. Started by car for Maam, or Lough Corrib Head 

 Hotel, at 9 a.m., and found by the way Eriocaulon septangidare in a 

 lake. The country is quite full of lakes, and flat, being enclosed 

 between two ranges of lofty mountains. After following the 

 Ballanahinch road for eight miles, we turned off to the left for four 

 miles between two lofty mountains, and at the head of Lough 

 Corrib is situated the small inn. Soon after our arrival we went 

 up the mountain behind the house, and found Sazifraga umbrosa /? 

 punctata : there was a fine view from the top. . . . the top is great 

 part of it occupied by a bog. 



Aug. 29. We went up the mountain opposite to the inn, on the 

 right of the Galway road : the hill is called Shanfolagh, and is very 

 easy of access. From the top I counted 175 lakes, most of them in 

 Connemara, which is divided from Joyce's country by this hill, and 

 the others of its range ; descended by a recess on the north side, 

 and saw plenty of Saxifraga umbrosa, S. stellaris, Hymenopliyllum 

 Wilsoni in one place ; on the top Juniperus nana. In the evening 

 we went along the road towards the Killeries, until we came to the 



