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CHAPTER VIII. 

 THE LAKE-BASINS OF IAKCONN AUGHT . . . .108 



Bog-basins, 108 ; Drift-basins, 110 ; Bar, Cleggan Bay, 110 ; 

 Bars of gravel in valleys, 112 ; Forests promote rain, 113 ; 

 Bars and lagoons, 113 ; Bar in Kylemore valley, 114 ; 

 Glacial bars, 115 ; Meteoric bars, 116 ; Mountain torrents, 

 117 ; Bars, Lake of Geneva, 118 ; Bars formed by landslips, 

 119 ; Lakes formed by beavers, 119 ; Eock-basins, 120 ; 

 Lough Conga, 123 ; Waterless rock-basins, 124. 



CHAPTER IX. 



COERYS WITH OR WITHOUT LAKE-BASINS . . . .126 



Close on corrys in Kerry, 126; Corrys in Galway and 

 Mayo, 128 ; Cooses on the coast of Galway, 128 ; Marine, 

 ice, and meteoric actions, 132 ; Former climate in larcon- 

 naught, 133 ; Effects of sun's rays, 134; Altitude of corrys, 

 135 ; Churn holes and hollows in cooses, 136 ; Bars in corrys, 

 138. 



CHAPTER X. 

 THE VALLEYS or SOME OP THE IRISH LAKES . . .140 



Lough Neagh, 140 ; Lough Comb, 140 ; Sluggys, swallow- 

 holes, turloughs, pot-holes, and pipes, 141 ; Coole Lough river 

 system, 148 j Lakes and turloughs rising with the tide, 151 ; 

 Lough Mask, 151 ; Lough Derg, 153 ; Lake of Como, 157 ; 

 Subterranean passages, 158 ; River Fergus basin, 160 ; Sub- 

 terranean passages, Lough Corrib, 161. 



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CHAPTER XI. 

 GORGES AND RAVINES . . . . . .162 



Abyssinia, 162; Lough Ashangi, 163; larconnaught, 164; 

 Lough Cooter and lakes in Clare, 166 ; Mount Sirban, 168 ; 

 California, 169 ; Namaqualand, 170 ; Galway and Mayo, 171. 



