1 86 By Stream and Sea. 



noted for cheapness the one is Killarney, the other the 

 Giant's Causeway. The dog who has been unfortunate 

 enough to earn a bad name, is, as the old proverb tells us, 

 as good as gone ; and places, too, sometimes suffer from an 

 ill repute they do not deserve. But, as times go, travelling 

 is reasonably economical in and about the romantic lake 

 district of Southern Ireland, and the grand rock-bound coast 

 of the North. 



The Giant's Causeway is somewhat out of the beaten track; 

 yet everybody goes there, and whosoever can command 

 leisure should go there. Ireland is, like its neighbour across 

 the narrow Channel, a land of mountain and stream ; but 

 there is only one Giant's Causeway. Englishmen, who used 

 to look upon Ireland as a foreign land not to be thought of, 

 have for some years been learning not only to trust them- 

 selves in the more familiar districts, but to penetrate into the 

 wildest and most unfrequented portions ; and the North of 

 Ireland is now understood to be something more than a huge 

 flat field, and the battle-ground for Orange and Catholic 

 " 'Prentice Boys." Increased facilities by land and sea have 

 opened the eyes of the previously blind, and during the 

 past ten years a steady stream of Scotch and American 

 excursionists has flowed through Portrush, and along the in- 

 teresting high road by which the Giant's Causeway is reached. 

 The fact is, it is no longer the fashion to regard Ireland 

 merely as a convenient landing-stage from which to see 

 Killarney. The western and northern coasts, always the 

 favoured resort of the few,* are now well appreciated by the 

 many, and the endless rocks and striking headlands of 

 Donegal, Londonderry, and Antrim, are more than ever 

 sought out by admiring and appreciative holiday-keepers j 

 and if half the English tourists, who " do " the Rhine, knew 

 the surpassingly lovely scenery to be found in almost every 



