SUMMER SESSION. 



TJie following Excursions were made during the Summer Session : 



On Saturday, 25 th May, to 



THE GIANT'S RING AND DRUMBO. 



Having assembled at the Ulster Hall, a party of about twenty- 

 four left at. twelve o'clock, by a specially provided conveyance, for 

 one of the most interesting trips that could well be selected for an 

 afternoon from Belfast. The drive along the Malone Road gives 

 a very fair idea of what Belfast has done within a few years, both in 

 acquiring wealth and expending that wealth in improving its suburbs 

 by the creation of elegant buildings, mansions, villas, and terraces, 

 and with this evidence of material prosperity, the several colleges 

 — Queen's, Presbyterian, and Methodist — testify that intellectual 

 progress has not been neglected. One of the most prominent of 

 the suburban residences along the road is that of Samuel Barbour, 

 Esq. It has been erected on what was formerly known as 

 Pleasure-house Hill, it being one of the many old forts that remain 

 since the earliest periods of our country's history. Some years ago 

 it was the resort of the holiday folk from town, but long previous 



