OF THE COUNTY OF DOWN. 11 



Surface. 



If inequality of furface is eflential to the beauty of a 

 country, none can boaft a ftronger claim to it than the 

 county of Down : it contains every defcription of fuper- 

 ficies ; the plain, the detached hill, the ranges of hills, 

 the mountains, all contribute to form a variety mofl 

 interefting to the beholder. The plains are moftly 

 confined to the banks of the rivers, the hills occupy 

 the greateft portion, and the lofty mountains are clofely 

 thrown together in the fouthern quarter, whence they 

 afford a ftriking feature, and are nearly taken into 

 every extenfive profpeft this country furnifhes. This 

 inequality of furface is ufeful as well as ornamental ; it 

 facilitates the running off of the waters, and enables 

 thofe occupiers, who live on the fides of rivers, to 

 ereft their dwellings out of the reach of floods, which 

 here are not only harmlefs, but improving, whilft other 

 ountries feverely fuffer under their annual ravages. 



SECT. 5. Minerals. 



COPPER ore has been found in feveral parts of this 



county. In the mountains near Rofstrevor, about five 



miles to the north-eafr, in the bed of a rivulet, copper 



c 2 ore 



