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local maritime plants, and then the party returned to the rail- 

 way refreshment rooms, where a sumptuous tea was provided 

 by Mr. Lawrence. Subsequently a short meeting was held, at 

 which a little formal business was transacted, and Dr. J. St. 

 Clair Boyd elected a member of the Club, after which the 

 evening express brought the members quickly back to town, 

 well pleased with their trip, which, in spite of the rain of the 

 second day, was voted to have been highly successful and 

 enjoyable. 



LOUGH ERNE AND SLIGO. 



The annual long excursion took place on Monday, Tuesday, 

 and Wednesday, July nth, 12th, and 13th, when a party of 

 fifty members spent three delightful days in exploring Lough 

 Erne, Bundoran, Ben Bulben, Sligo, and Lough Gill. 



The Field Club party left Belfast at 8 o'clock on Monday 

 morning, in a carriage specially reserved for the party, and 

 which, by the arrangements of the obliging manager of the 

 Great Northern Railway, accompanied them throughout their 

 various railway journeys both going and returning. Enniskillen 

 was reached at 1 1-45, where the party was met by Mr. Thomas 

 Plunkett, MR. LA., chairman Enniskillen Town Commis- 

 sioners, and Mr. Humphreys, manager of the Sligo and Leitrim 

 Railway. No time was lost in dismounting, and a half-mile 

 walk through the neat streets of the thriving island town, 

 crowded with country folk who were busily engaged in the 

 many duties pertaining to a monthly fair day, brought the 

 Belfast visitors to the river bank, where the steamer "Belturbet" 

 lay in readiness, and in a few minutes her shrill whistle sounded 

 a farewell to Enniskillen as she glided out on the broad, calm 

 river, past the loop-holed barrack-walls, and left behind the 

 ancient four-turretted castle-gateway of the Maguires, and the 

 tall spire of the parish church, and the lofty column of Cole's 

 monument on the Fort Hill, 7'he wooded narrows of Portora 



