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most enjoyable drive to Lough Salt, which lies high up among the 

 mountains to the south of Rosapenna. Some time was spent 

 •exploring the neighbourhood and all assembled on the shores of 

 Lough Salt, where an excellent luncheon was served. Later cars 

 were remounted, and the drive continued to the wild granite-strewn 

 Gap of Barnes-beg, where tea was dispensed by the wayside. The 

 cars then turned northward along the wooded shores of Glen 

 Lough, lying among brown bogs, flecked with the white of the 

 canavan, and brightened by the red-purple of bell heather — 

 certainly one of the most lovely spots visited on the excursion. 

 Soon afterwards the hotel was reached. In the evening a party of 

 archaeologists continued the exploration of the kitchen-middens in 

 front of the hotel, among the most interesting finds being a stone 

 disc and several bones of the Great Auk. 



On Tuesday morning all rose early and walked across the 

 sands to Downings Bay. The steamer Cynthia, specially chartered 

 to convey the party, left Downings Pier punctually at eight o'clock, 

 and steamed down Sheephaven towards the Atlantic. In a short 

 time Horn Head, one of the finest headlands in Europe, became 

 visible, towering nearly a thousand feet sheer above the sea. 

 Here the steamer slowed down in order to give the passengers a 

 better view of the great bird colonies which inhabit the rocky 

 ledges of the cliffs. No syren was sounded to make the birds take 

 to flight. It being the nesting season, the sudden disturbance of the 

 parent birds would have caused thousands of the young ones to be 

 pushed from the narrow ledges and dashed to pieces on the rocks 

 below. Steaming north-westward the vessel left the great cliffs of 

 the Horn behind, and suddenly entered a bank of fog, which shut 

 out the long-hoped-for view of the Donegal highlands from the sea. 

 The first intimation that the party was nearing its destination was 

 the sound of voices shrilling through the mist. Uncertain glimpses 

 of a rocky shore were seen, and the steamer stood by till a fishing 

 boat came through the mist and hailed her in a quaint mixture of 

 Gaelic and English. Armed with collecting bottles and many 



