41O Lakes of Killarney. 



name, yet there is a coldness in the margin of 

 the lake, which is repulsive. 



The right-lined extensive fir plantations, 

 evidently the trim designs of art, give a for- 

 mality, and harmonize not with the varied 

 irregular unstudied works of nature in their 

 vicinage ; the first view satisfied our curiosity, 

 and we proceeded direct to Dennis Isle. 



On our arrival there, we had the mortification 

 of learning, that in consequence of the rise in 

 the water, by the rain of the preceding night, 

 the chances were much against our getting 

 through the Old Wear Bridge. To this cir- 

 cumstance the boatmen had not adverted, or 

 had purposely omitted providing the necessary 

 length of towing-rope : there appeared to be 

 neither remedy, nor resource ; and the day was 

 too far spent to attempt the other passage. 

 We found so strong a current against us, that it 

 was with great difficulty we passed Dennis Isle, 

 and got landed on the opposite shore. Here 

 our boatmen stripped, preparatory to dragging 

 the boat against the stream, which in floods is 

 an operation attended with some danger ; with 

 great labor the men succeeded in getting it 

 to the bridge, and we began to entertain san- 

 guine hopes of surmounting the difficulty. I 



