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claiming " how grand ! how beautiful ! how enchant- 

 ing ! I have never seen anything like it, ' ' and during 

 the remainder of our stay in this pleasant little villa> 

 of about a month's duration, she frequently visited us 

 in anticipation of witnessing again and sketching one 

 of these sunsets, and was seldom disappointed. 



The lady frequently sketched them and blended 

 her colours to match the varying shades. She after- 

 wards painted and exhibited one which is now, I be- 

 lieve in the possession of her daughter. 



While we gazed, the golden clouds, as the mist 

 floated away, took the shapes of small islets in the 

 middle of a vast lake ; sail and row boats as it were 

 gently gliding over the smooth surface, or spreading 

 around and enveloping all in an iridescent flood of 

 colour, so combined as to enhance " the living pre- 

 sent " with fair scope for contemplating its beauty ; 

 a beauty which no words of mine can adequately 

 describe. 



Although of a more proasic temperament, I on 

 these occasions, recalled the fair Easter Sunday re- 

 ferred to. There the back ground was the towering 

 peaks of the high Killarney Mountains, clothed from 

 the waters' edge to their lofty tops, with the glowing, 

 shimmering, purple heather, then coming into bloom, 

 casting varying reflections in the deep clear waters of 

 those lovely lakes ; now deep blue ; now pale green 

 alternating and blending one with the other, inter- 

 mingled with the colours of the rainbow, now this, 

 now that predominating till at last one became so be- 

 wildered as to be unable to say which prevailed, and 



