SUMMER SESSION. 



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The following Excursio7is were made during the Summer Session: 



On 1 2th May, to 



PORTRUSH AND GIANTS' CAUSEWAY. 



The Twenty-first Summer Session was opened on Saturday, 

 1 2th May, by an excursion to Portrush and the Giants' Cause- 

 way. Assembling at the Northern Counties terminus, a party 

 of upwards of twenty set off by the 9-50 train, the day promising 

 to be one of sunshine and shower. The monotony of the 

 railway journey was unbroken by any unusual event. Arriving 

 at Portrush, and seated in the open carriage of the Portrush 

 and Giants' Causeway Tramway Company, drawn by one of 

 their neat locomotives, the party were in a few minutes on 

 their way to the depot, turning the sharp curve at the monu- 

 ment with a rapidity rather startling to those unaccustomed to 

 narrow-gauge lines. W. A. Traill, Esq., the Engineer of the 

 line, kindly invited the company to examine the works before 

 starting on their journey. The buildings are substantial and 

 commodious, well designed to meet even anticipated wants, and 

 contain all the requirements necessary to maintain the line and 

 its rolling stock. In an enclosed portion of the building is 

 situated the powerful dynamo and the engine set apart to work 



