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Title: On an Irish jaunting-car through Donegal and Connemara
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bayne, Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble), 1844-1924
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Publisher: New York, London, Harper
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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k grew on the shore thewater was salt and connected somewherewith the sea. We stopped at Dunlow forlunch and then descended into the Gwee-barra River valley and crossed the large,new steel bridge of that name, erected bythe Congested Districts Board to give thepeople employment on that and the roadsconnecting with it at both ends. Theway lies through an untamably wild coun-try, but with such constant and shiftingpanorama of mountain scenery that theattention is never fatigued. You see inreview the Dunlewy Mountains, SlieveSnaght, Errigal, Dooish, and the Derry-veigh chains; in fact, if the weather isfine—and it all depends on that—thereis scarcely such another mountain viewin the kingdom. The head of Gweebarra Bay, where theriver joins it, is a queer - looking place;we skirted its shores for miles and enjoyedits peculiarities. When the tide is out thewater is of a seal-brown color, due to thepeat; when it is in, the color is bright green.Where the tides meet is a mixture of both44
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GWEEDORE TO GLENTIES colors, and frequently some of the shallows,side by side, will be of either brown orgreen, making a checkered appearance.While all this is going on, water-falls fromthe hillsides pour their brown waters intothe bay and very often into pools of green.This phenomenon, in connection with thepleasing picture formed by the numeroussmall islands which dot the surroundingwaters, makes it well worth while to waitand witness the tide in its changing stages.We finished our twenty-five mile drivein an hour or so, and put up for the nightat ODonnells, Glenties. GLENTIES TO CARRICK IN some Irish hotels they set apart a roomfor the drummers to write and eat in, atlower prices than the public tariff, andthis is as sacred ground as a Hindoo temple;for an ordinary personage to desecrate itby his presence is simply an unpardonablecrime and is resented by the drummersaccordingly. The doors are not alwaysmarked, and so it happened that I inno-cently wandered into this reserved roomin

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