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mountains of Kerry, and that furprizing har- 
bour the Bullers of Buchan * may well be op- 
pofed to the rocks of B/ackulla, or the caverns 
of Skiula. Sweden can no where produce a 
parallel to that happy combination of gran- 
deur and beauty in Ke/wick + vale, or Kz/ar- 
ay t lake; nor can Europe fhew a natural won- 
der equal to the Grant's Caufeway in the north 
of Ireland. : . 7 
The excellence and number of our f{prings 
(whether medicinal or incrufting) are well 
known to common inquirers, _ 
Our minerals are as great in quantity, as 
rich in quality: of gold, indeed we cannot pro- 
duce many {fpecimens, yet fufficient to fhew 
that it is found in this ifland§; but filver is 
found in great abundance in our lead ores, 
and veins of native filver in the copper ores 
of Muckrus, on the lake of Killarny. The 
hematites iron ores of Cumberland, and the 
beautiful columnar iron ores of the foreft of 
Dean, ave fufficient todifplay our riches in 
that ufeful commodity. No country produces 
fo great a quantity of tin as Cornwall; and 
that county, and feveral others in the north 
* Between Aberdeen and Peterhead. 
In Cumberland. 
t In the County of Kerry. 
§ That ourcountry produces gold, appearsin Dr. Borlaje’s 
excellent hiftory of Cornwall, p. 214. folate as the year 1753 
feveral pieces were found in what the miners call ffream ti7; 
one {pecimen was as thick as a goofe quill; others weighed 
to the value of feventeen fhillings, twenty feven fhillings: 
and another even to the value of three guineas. 
A 2 have 
