36 CORN FARM IN CONNEMARA. 



At Kjlemore there is an inland lake of consider- 

 able beauty, shut in on all sides by conical mountains. 

 At the western extremity of this lake lies the farm 

 of a young Englishman, from Lancashire, who, with 

 several brothers, has settled in this country. Their 

 choice of a location has not been fortunate ; and it may 

 be doubted, whether the capital expended in erecting 

 expensive farm-buildings, in a tract where the soil and 

 climate forbid cultivation, will be reproductive. If the 

 same energy and capital had been employed on some of 

 the fine arable lands of Mayo or Galway, how different 

 would the result have been ! Strangers should not too 

 rashly expend their capital, in the vain hope that they 

 can at once import the agricultural management of an 

 English county, into a region where the soil and climate 

 are totally unsuited for such a change. But neither 

 must any general conclusion be drawn from the result 

 of such an experiment, adverse to investments judi- 

 ciously made in more favoured districts of the West of 

 Ireland. 



Remaining all night at Kylemore with two parsons 

 who keep a hotel here, and help to entertain the 

 traveller, (thus adding to their cure of souls a personal 

 attention to the wants of the body,) we returned next 

 morning to Leenane, thence up a valley through Joyce's 

 country to Maume, at the western extremity of Lough 

 Corrib. Great part of this valley is very suitable for 

 sheep-farming, the mountains affording much sweet 

 pasture, as also the slopes and banks of the river. 

 From Maume to Cong the road sweeps along the 

 north-west side of Lough Corrib, the country being very 



