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The mercliants of Belfast have studded the surrounding heights with villas, 

 and several villages, such as Legoniel, have become suburbs of the ever-spreading 

 city. Others, as Liahurn, on the Lagan, and Moira, are industrial depend- 

 encies. Carrickfergus, on the northern shore of the lough, is the ancient capital 

 of the surrounding country, and in early days its picturesque castle was one of the 

 principal strongholds of Ireland. At its foot William III. embarked when about 

 to rout the army of his father-in-law ; and subsequently, in 1759, Thurot, the 

 Frenchman, held possession of it for three days. Carrickfergus, in addition to 

 its linen trade, possesses a resource in the salt mines near it. Lame, at the 

 mouth of a small lough to the north of that of Belfast, is an outport of the 



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great city of Ulster. Along the coast are the fishing and M'atering places 

 of Glenarm, Cushenduii, and Balhjcmtle. If the latter has not grown into a large 

 manufacturing town, it is not the fault of its late owner, who founded glass 

 houses, tanneries, and breweries, built a quay, erected four churches, and endowed 

 several charities. Near the town are curious coal-pits, now abandoned, and ofi it, 

 at a distance of 5 miles, lies Rathlin Island. Bushmills, an old town where spades 

 and hoes are made, lies about a mile up the river Bush, to the west of the Giants 

 Causeway (see p. 384). On the coast Dunluce Castle rises on an almost insulated 

 cliff. Portnish, on the north-western border of the county, is the port of the 

 manufacturing town of Colemine, which stands 4 miles above the mouth of the Bann, 



