A DAY UP THE RIVER. 101 



eels, dilske, and other maritime productions, 

 and receiving in exchange from the interior, 

 raw flax, corn, and occasionally cattle. Above 

 the falls of Rose Isle there is a very small 

 port, or dock, which is seldom without a boat 

 or two. On this day it was already crowded, 

 as, one by one, the trading people dropped 

 in from the head of the lake, and, fastening 

 their boats to the little quay, or pier, brought 

 ashore their different articles of traffic. 



There was as yet no very great crowd, but 

 all along the street, on both sides of the inn, 

 there were parties of men with crowbars and 

 hurdles, marking out places for the cattle- 

 pens ; one or two standings were already 

 erected, on which the owners were displaying 

 coarse cheap calicos, and gown-pieces with 

 great staring patterns, in which red and yel- 

 low predominated to a very great degree ; 

 another was unfolding the homespun wool- 

 lens, grey or dark blue, of which the peasants 

 fabricate their peculiarly ugly coats ; then 

 came the staple commodity of the place, the 

 home manufacture of Belleek, the salted 

 eel ; below this again were two or three wo- 

 men from Bundoran, wrangling for prece- 

 dence with regard to an eligible spot for the 



