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Sligo, Leitrim, and Northern Counties Railway to Drumahaire. 

 On arrival at Drumahaire Station the -President, Mr. R. L Praeger, 

 and Mrs. Praeger were awaiting them, and the party mounted cars 

 and were driven to the Abbey Hotel, their headquarters during 

 the excursion. The members were conducted to their rooms by 

 Mr. and Mrs. Jeiter, who during the excursion were unremitting 

 in their attentions, and rendered the sojourn at their hotel a time 

 to be oft recalled with pleasure. After partaking of afternoon tea 

 the cars were remounted, and a short drive brought the party to 

 the landing-stage on the River Bonnet, where a motor boat was 

 waiting, and the afternoon was spent cruising on Lough Gill, a 

 short halt being made to enable the members to collect on Goat 

 Island. Returning up the river the numerous species of Willows 

 gave rise to conjecture as to how many of them might prove to be 

 hybrids. On reaching the landing-stage the cars were again 

 mounted and the party returned to the hotel for dinner at eight 

 o'clock. 



No programme was fixed for Sunday, and the members were 

 free to spend the day in whatever way best agreed with their 

 inclinations. Some went to church or strolled about the village 

 and its environs, while most of them paid a visit to the extensive 

 ruins of Creevelea Abbey (close to the hotel), a Franciscan 

 monument in a good state of preservation. A few years ago its 

 walls were densely ivy-clad, but on its coming into the custody of 

 the Board of Works the ivy was wisely removed, and this not only 

 tends to the safety of the masonry but also permits an uninterrupted 

 view of the several fine examples of windows with flamboyant 

 tracery typical of the later mediaeval Irish monasteries. Some of 

 the party paid a visit to the far-famed Glencar, with its waterfall, 

 and Swiss valley, and returned delighted with their long day's outing. 



Punctually at 9-30 on Monday morning the party left the 

 hotel in cars bound for the southern shore of Lough Gill, where the 

 day was spent. On reaching the head of Slish Gap, an eroded 

 valley due to the weathering down of a pre-Carboniferous dyke of 



