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fummit, having its correfponding crater ; but 

 without this circumftance the fcenery is in- 

 terefting in a very great degree. The moun- 

 tain fummits, which are often wrapped in 

 the clouds, at other times exhibit the freed 

 outline ; the immenfe fcooped hollows which 

 fink at your feet, declivities of fo vaft a depth 

 as to give one terror to look down ; with the 

 unufual forms of the lower region of hills, 

 particularly Bull hill, and Round hill, each a 

 mile over, yet rifing out of circular vales, 

 with the regularity or femi-globes unite upon 

 the whole, to exhibit a fcenery to the eye, in 

 which the parts are of a magnitude fo com- 

 manding ; a character fo interesting, and a va- 

 riety fo finking, that they well deferve to be 

 examined by every curious traveller. 



Nor are thefe immenfe outlines the whole 

 of what is to be feen in this great range of 

 mountains. Every Glen has its beauties -, 

 there is a confiderable mountain river, or ra- 

 ther torrent in every one of them ; but the 

 greateft are the Puncheon, between Sefang 

 and Galtymore ; the Limeftone river, between 

 Galtymore and Round hill, and the Groufe 

 river, between Coolegarranroe, and Mr. 

 O'Callaghan's mountain ; thefe prefent to the 

 eye, for a trac~l of about three miles, every va- 

 riety that rock, water, and mountain can give, 

 thrown into all the fantaftic forms which art 

 may attempt in ornamented grounds, but al- 

 ways fails in. Nothing can exceed the beauty 

 of the water, when not difcoloured by rain, 



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