NOT FOUND IN IRELAND. 89 



sented to your wondering eye in the course of a 

 quarter of a mile, you could not help associating with 

 the name of glow-worm the most pleasing recol- 

 lections." * 



The glow-worm is not found in this neighbour- 

 hood ; nor, so far as I have heard, has it yet been 

 noticed in any part of Ireland. The first and only 

 time I met with it, was in Scotland, towards the end 

 of the summer of 1824, and amid circumstances very 

 different from those described. With three friends, I 

 had started at an early hour from the vicinity of Loch 

 Katrine, walked over to the " Clachan o' Aberfoil," 

 and sauntered along the romantic shores of Loch 

 Ard, places which the pen of Sir Walter Scott has 

 converted into classic ground. Delighted with the 

 picturesque grandeur of the scener5% we neglected to 

 note the " fleeting hours of time," and found our- 

 selves, before we had gained the western side of 

 Ben Lomond, benighted and without a guide. The 

 morass abounded with deep fissures, which it required 

 the utmost circumspection to avoid. Weary, hungry, 

 and fearing every moment the result of some un- 

 lucky step, we descended the mountain. It was now 

 eleven o'clock, and part of the descent yet remained 

 to be accomplished ; when all at once, on a shelving 



* Kirby and Spence, vol. ii. p. 410. 



