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the world, if they would only agree to live peaceably together, its 

 present navy boasts only a few fishing-boats, hauled on the strand, 

 some half-dozen hookers, and now and then a schooner bringing 

 Scotch coal and carrying back Irish meal. As soon as the stranger 

 lands on the western or Donegal shore a marked change for the 

 worse is everywhere apparent. The land is more peaty and wet, the 

 farms are small and poor; in fact, from hence to Donegal, via 

 Gweedore, Glenties, Guibarra, and Ardara ^three sufficiently long 

 summer days' journeys the whole country is made up of mountains, 

 morass, lakes, rivers, and bog. Man seems merely allowed to exist, 

 so ungenial is the soil, so capricious the climate. "We must not abuse 

 it, however, as we have spent many, many happy months in the 

 district, and intend to visit it again in the coming autumn. If the 

 climate be inhospitable, it seems to have ripened all hospitable 

 virtues, for the fairest land under the sun cannot show warmer 

 hearts than are there to be found. Dear friends, believe me, your 

 kindness is fresh in my memory. 



This chapter is as long as the road, but, thank heaven I here is 

 Rathmelton. 



CHAPTER XII. 



What's in a Name ? Walking in the Mist, and Floundering in the Mud A 

 very rough Sketch of the Capabilities of Donegal Not knowing, can't say 

 Lough Fern Grand day on the Leannan Greenon Hill Doings for the 

 Week. 



Friday, April 14. 

 What's in a name ? has been asked on very high authority. The 

 answer is, that it depends entirely on circumstances. 



If a pair of blight eyes, with lips to match, said, " Ah, you 

 rogue," even a gentleman from Gal way would hardly think of 

 calling out the brother ; but " Ah, you rogue ; here, policeman, 



