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prospects from it are exceedingly grand. The opposite shores of 

 Glenaa rise into magnificent mountains., and clothed mid-way with 

 thick forests. To the west we recognize the lofty Tomish, and 

 around the numerous islands, some crowned with arbutus, others 

 resembling rocks, pillars, and arches. The sublime and picturesque 

 effect of O'Sulliven's Cascade, amply verify the imagery ol 

 Thompson. 



"Smooth to the shelving brink the copious flood 

 Runs fair and placid ; where collected all, 

 In one impetuous torrent, down the steep 

 It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. 

 At first an azure sheet, it issues broad, 

 Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls ; 

 And from the land-resounding rocks below 

 Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft 

 A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. 

 Ne'er can the^ tortured wave here find repose ; 

 But raging still among the shaggy rocks, 

 Now flashes o'er the scattered fragments, now 

 Aslant the hollowed channel rapid darts ; 

 And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, 

 With wild infracted course and lessened roar, 

 It gains i\ safer bed." 



" On the whole," says Mr. Young, " Killarney, among the lakes 

 that I have seen, can scarcely be said to have a rival. The extent 

 of water in Loch Erne is much greater, the islands are more 

 numerous, and some scenes near Castle Caldwell of greater 

 magnificence. The rocks of Keswick are more sublime, and other 

 lakes may have circumstances in which they are superior; but 

 when we consider the prodigious woods of Killarney, the immen- 

 sity of the mountains, the uncommon beauty of the promontory of 

 Mucrus and the isle of Innisfallen, the character of the islands 

 in general, the single circumstance of the arbutus, which grows 

 here with unequalled luxuriance, and the remarkable echoes, it 

 will appear, on the whole, to be in reality superior to all com- 

 parison." 



A little below the bridge of Ballyshannon, is a beautiful and 

 picturesque cascade : it is over a mass of rocks, and is twelve feet 

 nigh at low water. This is considered, one of the chief salmon- 

 leaps in Ireland. The effect is much heightened when the waters 

 are flooded. The number of salmon taken at this fall is so great, 

 that the fishery lets for above 1,000/. per annum ; there is also an 

 eel fishery at the same place, which is rented at 400/. a year. 



Jjough Erne is, in many respects, a very interesting lake, situated 

 in the county of Eermanagh, through which it runs from one end 

 to the other. The limits are considered to extend about forty 

 English miles, from Beleck on the north-west to Betherbet ofr the 



