22G FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



flowing in a northerly course from Loiigli Arrow. 

 The lower part of the united ^streams is very rapid, 

 falling fifty-seven feet in three-eighths of a mile, and 

 presents the very unusual feature of tumbling right 

 into the tideway over a precipice of twenty feet 

 high, that fall being reduced to about thirteen feet 

 at full spring tides. By this my readers will think, 

 where they are acquainted with the usual manner 

 in which English rivers reach the sea, that in Ire- 

 land, pardoning innumerable mistakes into which 

 the brain of Erin sometimes falls, fresh and salt 

 water, whisky and hot water, oil and vinegar, jump 

 together, though they don't always mingle peace- 

 ably, much more rapidly than they do in England. 



About half a mile ahove its junction with the 

 Arrow, the Owenmore has a fall of seventeen 

 feet at Collooney Mills, the limestone rock being 

 not only precipitous, but overhanging. Thus, then, 

 I offer to my readers real difficulties opposed to the 

 upward progress of salmon from the sea, which no 

 '^frce gap" could remove. We will now see the 

 better construction that was formed and said to 

 surmount the difhculty. 



Previously to the adoption of the lower ladder a 

 few occasional salmon, but very few, had been 



