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horse got his hmd-legs into a * gripe,' or watercourse, 

 three feet deep. Guard Keating sprang down and 

 saved the horse, being himself up to the waist in 

 water. But one man, however determined, could not 

 right the coach and relieve the passengers stuck fast 

 in a waste of waters. 



Then Kennedy from afar saw their plight, and he 

 and his men, wading a mile, came to the rescue, and 

 brought them safe to higher and firmer ground. ' He 

 risked all to save us from our perilous situation,' 

 reported the grateful Keating. 



By means of the two mail-coaches from Dublin, 

 (not to speak of another day coach which left at 

 eight a.m. and ran through Clonmel in twenty-one 

 hours and a half), Cork, with the help of four local 

 mail-coaches, to Limerick (51^- Irish miles). Water- 

 ford (64|- miles), to Ban try, Kinsale, Killarney, and 

 Tralee, was in direct communication with Dublin and 

 all the large towns in the South. I have driven 

 along the great Southern coast roads — from Wexford ^ 

 to Youghal, and Dunmanway to Crookhaven — and 

 have been amazed at their solidity and magnificence, 

 despite the transfer of traffic from road to rail. 



In 1835 Friedrich von Eaumer, of the University 

 of Berlin, visited the United Kingdom, and in the 

 following year published a book of travels, mentioning 

 a trip to Killarney, among other places. He arrived 

 on Thursday evening, and the next day being rainy, 

 he departed at night without seeing the lakes, the 

 object of his visit, at all. Still, he could say with 



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