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them wood fhoots in that romantic manner, 

 fo common at Killarney. Full in front Turk 

 mountain rifes with the proudeft outline, in 

 that abrupt magnificence which fills up the 

 whole fpace before one, and clofes the fcene. 



The road leads by a place where copper- 

 mines were worked ; many fhafts appear j as 

 much ore was raifed as fold for twenty-five 

 thoufand pounds, but the works were laid 

 afide, more from ignorance in the workmen, 

 than any defects in the mine. 



Came to an opening on the Great Lake, 

 which appears to advantage here, the town of 

 Killarney on the north-eaft (bore. Look full 

 on the mountain Glena, which rifes in a very 

 bold manner, the hanging woods fpread half 

 way, and are of great extent, and uncommonly 

 beautiful. Two very pleafing fcenes fucceed, 

 that to the left is a fmall bay, hemmed in by a 

 neck of land in front j the immediate fhore 

 rocks, which are in a picturefque frile, and 

 crowned entirely with arbutus, and other wood, 

 a pretty retired fcene, where a variety of ob- 

 jects give no fatigue to the eye. The other is 

 an admirable mixture of the beautiful and fub- 

 lime : a bare rock, of an aimofl regular figure, 

 projects from a headland into the lake, which 

 with much wood and high land, forms one fide 

 of the fcene, the other is wood from a rifing 

 ground only ; the lake open between, in a 

 Iheet of no great extent, but in front is the 



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