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hills and bogs, and the other from the mountains near to Cursleive. 

 This is the boundary between Tirawly and Erris. Soon after crossing 

 this river, the road descends into a glen, through which the Owen- 

 more flows. The hills bounding it are moderately high and rather 

 steep, but want trees to give them beauty. If planted, I do not 

 suppose that it would be surpassed by any vale in the kingdom. 

 At the end of Glenco is the very poor place named Bangor, consisting 

 of a few cabins, and two moderately good houses, one of them an 

 inn. Here opens a fine view of the mountains of Achill towards 

 the south-west. Another rather extensive bog now occurs, bounded 

 to the north by Lough Garrowmore. At the termination of the bog 

 is a curious pass into Glen Castle ; the road is cut out of the rock 

 on one side, and a river occupies the whole space at the bottom. 

 The valley gradually widens until it terminates in an open undulating 

 country, which extends on all sides, as far as the sea. Far to the 

 north is soon seen Ben Wee, a sea cliff quite perpendicular, proved 

 by a late measurement of the coast-guards' officers to be 1100 feet 

 high. At the distance of two or three miles from the end of Glen 

 Castle, the summit of a hill commands a view north of Broad Haven, 

 and south of Black Sod Bay, terminated in that direction by the 

 lofty mountains Slievemore and Saddlehead in Achill. From the 

 same point the whole Mullet is seen stretching north and south, 

 and strongly marked by its numerous white sand hills ; the church 

 of Binghamstown also is a very conspicuous object. 



July 20. Bellmullet : this is a nice little town, consisting of 

 three streets proceeding from the angles of a small square or 

 market place. The fourth street is not built. Many of the houses 

 are good, and the whole place wears a flourishing appearance. The 

 isthmus is so narrow that the houses extend from one bay to the 

 other. I walked out after breakfast towards the northern part of 

 the Mullet ; it is rather high, and all bog. I noticed in the bogs 

 Schoenus nigricans, Drosera rotundifolia, Helosciadium 7iudosum in 

 ditches. In a few cultivated spots Carduus pratensis, Senecio viscosus, 

 and amongst flax Camelina sativa. I then returned towards the 

 Binghamstown road, and saw Osmunda regalis, Myosotis repens, and 

 Oenanthe crocata. I then crossed the sand hills towards the sea, 

 and followed the coast of the Atlantic for some miles. The plants 

 Scirpus Savii, Arenaria peplo'ides, Glaux maritima, Flantago coronopus 

 very small. Spergtda nodosa, Anthyllis vulneraria, and in wetter 

 places Orchis latifolia and maciolata. Also Fapaver duhium. On 

 reaching a large lake, called Cross Lake, I turned inland, and in a 

 lane on the way to Drumshea found plenty of Callitriche pedunculata. 

 Passed through Binghamstown ; this place is quite a failure, as most 

 of the buildings are without roofs. Soon after passing the town I 

 found Rumex pratensis in a ditch by the road-side. I saw in the 

 pastures plenty of Lathyrus pratensis and Vicia cracca. (N.B. — On 

 the coast were numbers of a purple Medusa, about one-and-a-half 



