SUMMER SESSION. 



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The following Excursions were made during the Summer Session 



On lyth May, to 



THE GOBBINS— SOUTHERN END. 



The first excursion of the season was made, on Saturday, 

 17th May, to the Gobbins and southern end of Islandmagee. 

 Despite the unpromising weather of the preceding day and of 

 the early morning, a fair number of members started by the 

 9.30 train for Ballycarry ; and, as the event proved, those whose 

 want of faith in " field club weather " kept them at home, had 

 good cause to regret their loss of a most exhilarating and breezy 

 day among the rocks and cliffs of that romantic coast. From 

 Ballycarry station the route was taken through the lanes, 

 delicious in their spring greenness, to the brow which looks 

 down upon the southern end of the Gobbins. From this spot 

 a wide view is to be had. Looking backwards the eye ranges 

 along the well-wooded western slopes of Larne Lough, to rest 

 upon the higher ground beyond, first Shane's Hill and Agnew's 

 Hill, as yet partly shrouded in mist, then the grand horseshoe 



