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The irish Aran. 
(WITH SEVEN PLATES.) 
(Presidential Address (condensed) delivered Nov. 13th, 1890.) 
™ @SYWHE Islands constituting the Irish Aran lie off the 
West Coast of Ireland, and are practically in the 
Atlantic Ocean, although within sight of the coasts of 
Connemara and Clare. Their nearest point is 28 
miles from the Quay of Galway, and they lie off the entrance of 
the fjord which is now called Galway Bay or Loch Lurgan. Aran 
is supposed at one time to have been connected on the north 
with Connemara, on the south-east with Clare, and to have thus 
formed the western boundary of a lake. The magnificent cliffs 
of Moher, in Clare, which rise sheer out of the sea to a height 
of 800 feet, are a striking object from these islands on the one 
side, and the mountains called the Twelve Pins of biases on 
the other. 
The journey to Aran is in itself an interesting one, the route 
lying through North Wales to Holyhead and thence across the 
Channel to Dublin. The sail up Dublin Bay is very fine, with 
the picturesque hill of Howth on the one side, and the beautiful 
Wicklow Mountains on the other. Dublin itself is a striking city, 
containing many fine buildings. 
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