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certain that several parties had been waiting a 

 week for a fair day ; our prospect for the 

 morrow was considered almost as hopeless ; 

 which, with our time being so circumscribed 

 as to allow us only another day to explore ob- 

 jects that would fully and delightfully occupy 

 many, did leisure depend on will, produced us 

 inexpressible regret. If our good fortune 

 should yet attend us in the morning, and the 

 sun should shine, my only unpleasant reflection 

 will be that of your absence ; but as far as I 

 can compensate such a loss, I shall joyfully do 

 it, by giving you a faithful detail of every im- 

 pression I may receive from the contemplation 

 of this wonderful scenery. 



I am already convinced that the pre-eminent 

 features of Killarney are so opposite and dis- 

 tinct from those of our lakes, that, were the 

 picturesque to be contested, the decision would 

 be independent of comparative merits ; and 

 would arise out of the preconceived notions in 

 the party, in favor of the sublimity and 

 grandeur, or of the beautiful and smiling works 

 of nature ! The points of perfection in either 

 are so entirely dissimilar, that no possibility 

 exists of bringing them fairly into comparison, 

 or of weighing them in the scale of competition 

 against each other. The fascinations of a 



