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AN ASCENT OF CROMAGHLAN MOUNTAIN IN QUEST OF 

 LIMN^A INVOLUTA, {Thomp.) 



By W. Hill Evans, Esq, M.D. 



On the 24tli of June I was at Killarney, taking a brief holiday. 1 

 determined to avail myself of the oi^portunity of ascending Cromaghlan 

 Mountain, and, if possible, procuring some specimens of Limnma involuta 

 (Thomp,) from the tarn on its summit, the only known habitat of this 

 Mollusk. A very brief narrative of my expedition may not be uninterest- 

 ing to some of your readers. 



My party were staying at the Victoria Hotel, at the bottom end of 

 the lower lake. Cromaghlan Mountain skirts the south-western shore of 

 the uj)per lake, rising above the mail road from Killarney to Kenmare ; 

 it is about five miles from the hotel. I came into Killarney in time to 

 take a seat on the car, which runs daily from this town to Kenmare 

 and Glengarilf, leaving at ten a.m., and was set down at the tunnel on 

 the Kenmare Eoad, a little before eleven. If time is no object, I should 

 recommend walking rather than riding ; the road is very pretty, and in 

 many places there are beautiful peeps at the lakes ; but to those who are 

 desirous of saving both time and strength, the car offers great advantages, 

 taking you easily and quickly over the first portion of the way. Passing 

 the short tunnel through which the road runs, I, accompanied by a guide, 

 turned sharply to the left, and the climb at once begun. On getting over the 

 road wall, you turn your face almost back towards Killarney, looking along 

 the road you have traversed, but keeping rather to the right, and steering 

 for two prominent knolls near the summit of the mountain. The climb is 

 stiff, but is nowhere very difficult — a little floundering through boggy 

 ground, a few slips over occasional rocks, a scramble or two through the 

 brambles — and, if you are not tempted to linger too long in contemplating 

 the glorious panorama of mountain, wood, and lake, which stretches around 

 you, you will reach your goal in little more than half an hour. Some 

 friends assured me that they occupied two hours in the ascent, but they 

 attempted it by a different route, leaving the high road much nearer to 

 Killarney than I did, at Mr. Hubert's shooting tower. I believe that the 

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