28O Benbulb Mountain. 



any offence to modesty, or insult to female de- 

 licacy, is resented not by one, but by all. 



Proceeding on a few miles further, we en- 

 tered the estate of Lord Palmerston. From 

 the sea shore to the Benbulb Mountain is a 

 complete flat of ten miles at least in breadth, 

 extending in length towards Lough Erne a 

 much greater distance; Benbulb forms the 

 most western point of the range of mountains 

 which stretch from Lough Erne to the sea. 

 The magnitude of this mountain, and its flat 

 perpendicular side, made it an object of great 

 attention and interest, even at a considerable 

 distance. 



Dilapidation and ruin were too evident over 

 this extensive district; many of the cabins were 

 fallen into decay ; and what remained, and were 

 still inhabited, seemed to be fast approaching 

 to the period of their dissolution. A large 

 proportion of the ground had an uncultivated 

 aspect; while the few growing crops had a 

 poor, unthrifty appearance, and little or no pro- 

 tection from the ruinous fences. The penfolds 

 alone seemed in repair, the order and number 

 of which, to a certain extent, supersede the 

 necessity of fencing, by the duty enforced on 

 the herds. 



