120 Reviews — Prof. A. von Lasnidx — Aiis Irland. 



made within the existing generation ; with regard to the former, he 

 is generally pleased, sometimes delighted and enthusiastic. 



Having spent a few days in Dublin, examining the museums, 

 the churches, and public buildings, including those of the Univer- 

 sity, which he highly admires, and having provided themselves 

 with geological maps, guide books (not always reliable), and Geo- 

 logical Survey "Explanations" (which are always reliable), our 

 travellers take the train to Killarney, where they spend several 

 days exploring the lakes and mountain passes, and climbing Man- 

 gerton (2754 feet), from which they enjoy a panoramic view which 

 is graphically described. We have very minute descriptions cf the 

 geological structure of the lake district and mountains ; and the 

 author recognizes in the grand E. and W. flexures of the mountains 

 of Kerry, the prolongation of those which have disturbed and con- 

 torted the Carboniferous and Devonian rocks of Belgium and North 

 Germany. At p. 75 we have a table, which is intended to bring 

 into parallelism the Lower, Middle, and Upper Devonian beds of the 

 Eifel, the neighbourhood of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), Westphalia, 

 and the South of Ireland ; and certain beds of nodular limestone and 

 calcareous shale observed on the flanks of the mountains near 

 Muckross are jDlaced (with some hesitation) as the representatives 

 of the " Cypridinen-Schiefer, Goniatiten-Schiefer, und Cuboides- 

 Kalke, etc.," of the Eifel. We fear, however, such a comparison 

 cannot be maintained. The beds which Prof, von Lasaulx refers to 

 are really Carboniferous, nor are there any marine limestones in the 

 Old Eed series of the South of Ireland. On the volcanic phenomena 

 of •' the Devil's punch-bowl," and the characters of the old lavas and 

 ash-beds, our author's observations are accurate and suggestive. 



The appearance of some native women accompanied by a lad prof- 

 fering our travellers some of the " wine of the country," and thus 

 described : " Die Gestalt und die Gesichtsbildung dieser Frauen 

 war auffallend. Es waren feingebaute, schlanke, aber doch voile 

 Eiguren, die nicht ohne eine gewisse Eleganz baarfuss tiber die 

 rauhen Blocke schritten, mit tiefschwarzen, glanzenden Haaren 

 und dunkelbraunen Augen," etc., gives our author an opportunity 

 for an ethnological excursus, in which he draws a very clear distinc- 

 tion between the Celtic and the "Milesian" inhabitants of this 

 part of Ireland, the latter being the descendants of the Spanish 

 settlers who from time to time colonized the country. From 

 Killarney the author returned to Dublin, and from thence explored 

 some of the glens of Co. Wicklow, including that of Glendalough, 

 with its ancient ecclesiastical buildings. With the minerals in the 

 metamorphic rocks bordering the granite, and those in the granite 

 itself, the author is greatly interested ; but time, apparently, did not 

 permit of his paying much attention to the very striking glacial 

 phenomena of that region. 



The remaining portion of the volume is devoted to the North of 

 Ireland. Having accepted the proffered hospitality of the noble 

 owner of Florence Court, the author had an opportunity of ex- 

 amining Lord Enniskillen's splendid collection of fossil fishes, with 



