WILD SPOUTS 



OF THE WEST. 



INTERSPERSED 



WITH LEGENDARY TALES, AND LOCAL SKETCHES. 



BY THE 



AUTHOR OF STORIES OF WATERLOO." 



And sure it is yet a most beautifull and sweete countrey as any is 

 under heaven, being stored throughout with many goodly rivers, replenished 

 with all sorts of fish most abundantly, sprinkled with many very sweet 

 islands and goodly lakes, like little inland seas, that will even carry shippes 

 upon their waters." Spenser's State of Ireland, 1596. 



Station. 



LONDON: 



DAVID BRYCE, 48, PATERNOSTER ROW. 

 EDINBURGH: W. P. NIMMO. 



