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with a moft forcible impreflion. Returned 

 to Mucrufs. 



September 3 oth, this morning I had dedicat- 

 ed to the afcent of Mangerton, but his head 

 was fo enihrouded in clouds, and the weather 

 fo bad, that 1 was forced to give up the fcheme*: 

 Mr. Herbert has meafured him with very ac- 

 curate inftruments, of which he has a great 

 collection, and found his height 835 yards a- 

 bove the level of the fea. The Devil's punch 

 bowl, from the defcription I had of it, muft 

 be the crater of an exhaufted volcano : there 

 are many ligns of them about Killarney, par- 

 ticulary vaft rocks on the fides of mountains, 

 in ftreams, as if they had rolled from the top 

 in one direction. Brown ftone rocks are alfo 

 fometimes found on lime quarries, toffed thi- 

 ther, perhaps in fome vaft eruption. 



In my way from Killarney to Caftle Ifland, 

 rode into Lord Kenmare's park, from whence 

 there is another beautiful view of the lake, dif- 

 ferent from many of the preceding ; there is a 

 broad margin of cultivated country at your 

 feet, to lead the eye gradually in the lake, which 

 exhibits her iflands to this point more diftinftly 

 than to any other, and the back grounds 

 of the mountains of Glena and Tomys give a 

 bold relief. 



Upon the whole, Killarney, among the lakes 

 that I have feen, can fcarcely be faid to have a 

 rival. The extent of water in Loch Earne is 



much 



