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are directed to sublime heights and craggy eminences, 

 the haunts of the eagle and other birds of prey, and 

 then again look down on the glossy and tremulous 

 waves, which reflect the aspiring and umbrageous trees 

 which clothe the giddy summits. Sounds are here 

 repeated and retained with surprising and bewitching 

 effect. They float along the agitated air with angelic 

 harmony, and issue from the deep grottoes and recesses 

 of mountains like so many celestial voices. 



The island of Innisf alien is full of interest and beauty. 

 The prospects from it are exceedingly grand. The 

 opposite shores of Glena rise into magnificent mountains, 

 and clothed midway with thick forests. To the west 

 we recognise the lofty Tornish, and around the numerous 

 islands, some crowned with arbutus, others resembling 

 rocks, pillars, and arches. The sublime and picturesque 

 effect of O'Sullivan's Cascade amply verify the imagery 

 of Thompson. 



" Smooth to the shelving brink the copious flood 

 Runs fair and placid ; where collected all, 

 In one impetuous torrent, down the steep 

 It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. 

 At first an azure sheet, it issues broad, 

 Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls ; 

 And from the land-resounding rocks below 

 Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft 

 A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. 

 Ne'er can the tortured wave here find repose ; 

 But raging still among the shaggy rocks, 

 TTow flashes o'er the scattered fragments, now 

 Aslant the hollowed channel rapid darts ; 

 And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, 

 With wild infracted course and lessened roar, 

 It gains a safer bed." 



" On the whole," says Mr. Young, " Killarney, among 

 the lakes that I have seen, can scarcely be said to have 

 a rival. The extent of water in Loch Erne is much 

 greater, the islands are more numerous, and some scenes 

 near Castle Caldwell of greater magnificence. The 

 rocks of Keswick are more sublime, and other lakes may 

 have circumstances in which they are superior; but 



