PROCEEDINGS 



SUMMER PROGRAMME. 

 EXCURSIONS. 



19 May. 



BENMORE AND MURLOUGH. 



The first of the summer excursions was held on Saturday, 19 

 May, to Benmore and Murlough Bay. An early start was 

 made by the Northern Counties Railway, reaching Ballycastle 

 at 9-30, in time for a comfortable breakfast in the Antrim 

 Arms, where Robert Hunter paid every attention to the 

 members. After breakfast cars were mounted and a start made 

 for Fair Head, past the ruins of the old Franciscan Monastery, 

 at Bonamargy, where lovely views of the head and the sea were 

 obtained. An hour's drive brought the party close to the 

 shores of Loch-na-Crannoge, near the summit of the head, 

 where the vehicles were left and the journey around the head- 

 lands pursued on foot. The interesting lake-dwelling was 

 viewed from a distance, but. the geologists, who composed the 

 majority of the party, pushed on to the cliffs to see and examine 

 the disintegration that was there taking place, the columns, 

 standing out perpendicularly from the cliffs and toppling over 

 the sea at a height of 600 feet, affording a sight unequalled on 

 all our Antrim coast, especially when a large steamer sailed 

 past close in to shore and apparently within gunshot. The 

 Grey Man's Path was soon reached, and some of the party 

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