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CUrey and bounded on the North Side by the Bay of 
Galway. It is from one End to the other a Conti- 
nuation of very high, rocky, Lime ftone Hills, there 
being little or no plain Land throughout the Whole. 
It is that Part of which it is reported, that Oliver 
Cromwell faid, (when he came to ftorm a few Caftles 
in it) That he could neither fee Water enough to 
drown a Man, Wood enough to hang a Man, or 
Earth enough to bury a Man in: Notwi hdanding it 
is moft fertile, and produces immenfe Quantities of 
Juniper, and fome Yew ; befides great Variety of the 
Capillary Herbs, Virga Aurea, Verbenay and fDme 
other common Plants, I have found the Teucrium Al~ 
pinitm magno florcy of Cafpar Bauhin, and a large 
fhrubby Cmquefoilj anfwering the Defeription Mr. 
Morifon gives, in his Second Volume of Hijl. Oxon^. 
of his Bentaphylloides reBum'fruticofum Eboracenfe. 
The Inhabitants are but few, and they moftly poor 
Cottagers, whofe chief Stock is a Parcel of Goats. 
They are courteous and good-natured to Strangers, 
though very wild and unpolifhed ,• weak, blind, 
fuperflitious Zealots to the Church of Romoy and 
(like fome more polite People in the World) led and 
enflaved by a Set of mean, ignorant and illiterate 
Priefts. 
The Place where this Cave lies, is Kilcorny : 
It is a pretty low Valley, in Comparifon to the Hills 
that furfound it : The Entrance is into the Eaft End 
of it, (for it lies Eaft and W eft) about Midway. There 
are the Ruins of an old Church, and, a little Weft ward 
of it, an even Plain of about an Acre of Ground ; on 
the North Side of, which, under a fteep rugged Cliffy, 
lies the Cave. - ' 
The, 
