CALWAY. 
being 1x wide in the broadeftt pats : in the middle it is con- 
tracted to a {mall channel, ya is 
but is alfo extremely pause ous. The of Ourr 
and Cafhel are very high, and the vatt ridge called Beanbeolis, 
or the Twelve Pins, which is a well etek fea-mark, con- 
almoft perperdicular rock. the foot of this 
ofe to the little village OE Ballinahinch, a charming 
ditone bay, ther grea 
fifhery. On the. fides of hills, me in ae calles which a are 
watered by rivers and fmall lakes, and fheltered, in fon 
places, b enerable remains of ancient woods, oe foil 1s 
moftly fae to a black bog; but gravel, fand, or rock, 
he at no greater depth than from one to three feet Noe the 
urface. reat quantities of kelp are made ail along the 
and, by manuring with fe ck, the Iand is rendered 
ery produdiive to the ew fanilies that inhabit it, who 
are all little farmers a fifher 
inhabited by a cl 
rough ; Mamtrafna, on the borders of Mayo, is very high, 
and Ben-Levagh, at t he eae angle cf lough Corn, 
is a ftupendous mountz ie borders of the lake, the 
fhore of Killeries, ad an mine through which the river 
ealnabrack runs, are pretty well peopled, and the foil fuch 
as wonld amply repa xpence of good culti- 
This county does not appear, from the report of 
Mr. Donald Stewart, itinerant a the Dublin 
Society, to promife much cue to the mineral treafures 
of Iveland. LLime-tfi marle ar an valuable to the 
agriculturift, and thefe are in abundanc ee the 
anne ard 
ace Cor the rare oe ie 
found in es county, and efpecially the wild weftern diftrict, 
was publifhed by Dr. Wade, profeffor of botany to the 
Dublin oe. in the TranfaCtions of that body. T 
detail all of them would be tedious ; but it at be ufeful to 
notice a few of the moft uncommon. erula cynanchia, 
galium boreale, alchemilla alpina, rhamnus ie pim- 
pinella magna, droferaa oe erica ae (very common) 
andromeda polifolia, ar ~ uva urfi, faxifraga umbrofa, 
and hyperoides, crate $ ar . fees aucuparia, a 7 lee 
fativum, lavatera eee lobelia dortmanny, are fou ere, 
with a great variety of cryptogamics. This se which 
reaches from the fea to the Shannon, is well watered by 
rivers and lakes: feveral of the rivers are, in part of their 
eourfe, fubterraneous. The Black river, on the bounds of 
Mayo, wen a aay three miles near the village of Shrule. 
The Clar oyne unite their waters under ground, 
sterontely ppesrng - retir ing from view in the Turlach- 
ore ; +» form a lake, and in fummer 
a 
fel int Fam pereare upwards of fix miles in 
length, and two in breadth. Near Gort there are a vatt 
number of thefe fwallows ; in which fome part of almoft 
every river and brook in the neighbourhood i is ingulphed. 
The river ore a a dips feveral times, and, after a con- 
cealed courfe of two miles, rifes on the beach below high 
suet, and i eee itfelf among a rocks in the 
bay of Kinvarra. water 3 and 
he 
three fouthern ifles of Arran. The found between thefe 
iflands is a fafe road; and a number of inlets on the coafts, 
as well as the harbour of alway, are magi) deep for 
the reception of merchant fhips ; e more frequented 
by coafters and fifhi ing-boats, than by etn in the foreign 
trade. The indented fhores of Connamare abo 
fheltered havens. With r ulture of Gal- 
way, it is faid that tillage i is rapidly increafing : the foil, as 
before obferved, is naturally fertile ; manures are abundant ; 
an ~ their ao tolerably judicicus. We her e fin d 
fto | lime-itone gravel, ee ane. ae ob, and even 
and other weeds, which a: inhabitants collect and rot, prove 
good manures. The fruits of labour are rich crops of oats, 
barley, potatoes, and ee wheat. But the climate of 
this hilly an wefter al pa is too sbeleeag humid, and 
tempeftuous even to permit crops of grain to grow and ripen 
here, fo ay as in the ee and one 1 parts of Ire- 
and. Nor have the inkabita: ats of Galw way acquired thofe: 
vigilant and enlightened habits of indultry : eflentially 
requifite to enfure fuccefs to their pane ge hufbandry.. 
inen paanufacture has of late years increafed i in this 
“ bile warlike character oe form ee. their ncble- 
ftablifhments, nad religious mel or the power of their 
chieftains, and in ae a train a reflections hare dif 
manfions, that dire&t to- 
ent, or toa eros! 
The c 
pelled b e numero 
{cenes of natural soa rural improve 
and ieee when each province h 
governor, the capita It is fituate 
broad and fto 
into the fea. 
12,000, thou h 
each a {ma di 
co ae lnge he howe ; an arc bela ae ie cane from the 
{treet to the court a ftone ‘ftaircafe on each fide. Th ne 
ee. are lon aa. narrow. This was formerly the maft 
commercial town in Ireland ; but the fpirit of enterprife has. 
ag fince forfaken it 5 and though i it has ftill fome commerce, 
t has been left behind by aed other places. No veffe!s 
come up as far as the town; but the cae conveyed backe 
ward and forward by lig ters. The line 
member to. 
fher 
the imperial parliament. The public buildings in. Galiey 
