122 MOUNT KENNEDY. 



Reached in the evening Mount Kennedy, 

 the feat of Gen. Cunninghame, who fortu- 

 nately proved to me an inftru&or as affiduous 

 as he is able. He is in themidfl of a country 

 almoft all his own, for he has 10,000 Irifh acres 

 here. His domain, and the grounds about it, 

 are very beautiful, not a level can be feen; 

 every fpot is tolled about in a variety of hill 

 and dale. In the middle of the lawn is one of 

 the greateft natural curiofities in the king- 

 dom; an immenfe arbutus tree unfortunate- 

 ly blown down, but yet vegetating, one 

 branch, which parts from the body near the 

 ground, and afterwards divides into many large 

 branches, is 6 feet 2 inches in circumference. 

 The general buried part of the ftem as it laid, 

 and it is from feveral branches throwing out 

 fine young {hoots : it is a moft venerable rem- 

 nant. Killarney, the region of the Arbutus, 

 boafts ofnofuch tree as this. 



July 1 6th, rode in the morning to Drum; 

 a large extent of mountains, and wood, on 

 the general's eftate. It is a very noble 

 fcenery ; a vaft rocky glen ; one fide bare 

 rocks to an immenfe height, hanging in a 

 thoufand whimfical, yet frightful, forms, with 

 vaft fragments tumbled from them, and lying 

 in romantic confufion^ the other a fine moun- 

 tain fide covered with fhrubby wood. This 

 wild pafs leads to the bottom of an amphi- 

 theatre of mountain, which exhibits a very 

 noble fcenery. Te the right is an immenfe 

 fweep of mountain completely wooded, taken 

 as a lingle object it is a moft magnificent one, 



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