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of inclofures on the lake, and the woods and 

 lawns ofMucrufs, forming a large promontory 

 of thick wood, (hooting far into the lake. The 

 mod active fancy can iketch nothing in addi- 

 tion. Iflands of wood beyond feem to join it, 

 and reaches of the lake, breaking partly be- 

 tween, give the mod lively intermixture of 

 water : fix or feven ifles and iflets form an ac- 

 companyment, fome are rocky, but with a 

 flight vegetation, others contain groups of trees, 

 and the whole thrown into forms, which would 

 furnifh new ideas to a painter. Farther is a 

 chain of wooded iflands, which alfo appear to 

 join the main land, with an offspring of lefler 

 ones fcattered around. 



Arrived at Mr. Herbert's at Mucrufs, to 

 whole friendly attention I owed my fucceed- 

 ing pleafure. There have been fo many de- 

 fcriptions of Killarney written by gentlemen 

 who have refided fome time there, and feen it 

 at every feafon, that for a paffing traveller to 

 attempt the like, would be in vain ; for this 

 reafon I (hall give the mere journal of the re- 

 marks I made on the fpot, in the order I view- 

 ed the lake. 



September ayth, walked into Mr. Herbert's 

 beautiful grounds, to Oroch's hill, in the lawn 

 that he has cleared from that profufion of llones 

 which lie under the wall; the fcene which this 

 point commands is truly delicious ; the houis 

 is on the edge of the lawn, by a wood which 

 covers the whole peninfula, fringes the Hope at 



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