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 inuch greater ; the iflands more numerous, and 

 fome fcenes near Caftie Caldwell, of perhaps 

 as great magnificence. The rocks at Kefwick 

 are more fublime, and other lakes may have 

 circumftances in which they are fuperior ; but 

 when we conflder the prodigious woods of Kil- 

 larney; the immenfity of the mountains; the 

 uncommon beauty of the promontory of Mu- 

 crufs, and the ifle of Innisfalkn 5 the character 

 of the iflands ; the fingular circumftance of the 

 arbutus, and the uncommon echoes, it will 

 appear, upon the whole, to be in reality fupe- 

 rior to all companion. 







Before I quit it, I have one other obfer- 

 vation to make, which is relative to the want 

 of accommodations and extravagant cxpence 

 of ftrangers refiding at Killarney. I fpeak it 

 not at all feelingly, thanks to Mr. Herbert's 

 hofpitaiity, but from the accounts given me : 

 the inns are miferable, and the lodgings little 

 better, I am furprifed ibmebody with a good 

 capital does not procure a large well built inn* 

 to be erected on the immediate fhore of the 

 lake, in an agreeable iituation, at a diftance 

 from the town: 'there are very few places 

 where fuch an one would anfwer betier, there 

 ought to be numerous and good apartments. 

 A large rendezvous- room for billiards, cards, 

 dancing, mufic, &c. to which the com- 

 pany might refort when they chofe it: an 

 ordinary for thofe that liked dining in public; 

 boats of all forts, nets for fifhing, and as 

 great a variety of amufements as could be col- 



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