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Title: The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 Vallée, Léon, 1850-1919 Brandl, Alois, 1855-1940 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: London : The Standard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t parts of it are strik-ingly interesting; the mountains are bare and rocky, and of agreat magnitude; the vales are rocky glens, where a mountainstream tumbles along the roughest bed imaginable, and receivesmany torrents, pouring from clefts half-overhung with shrubbywood; some of these streams are seen, and the roar of othersheard, but hid by vast masses of rock. Immense fragments,torn from the precipices by storms and torrents, are tumbledabout in the wildest confusion, and seem to hang rather thanrest upon projecting precipices. Upon some of these fragmentsof rock, perfectly detached from the soil, except by the side onwhich they lie, are beds of black turf, with luxuriant crops ofheath, etc., which appeared very curious to me, having nowhereseen the like; and I observed, very high in the mountains, muchhigher than any cultivation is at present, on the right hand,flat and cleared spaces of good grass among the ridges of rock,which had probably been cultivated, and proved that these
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A TOUR IN IRELAND. 4331 mountains were not incapable from climate of being appliedto useful purposes. From one of these heights, I looked forward to the lake ofKillarney at a considerable distance, and backward to the riverKenmare; came in view of a small part of the upper lake,spotted v/ith several islands, and surrounded by the most tre-mendous mountains that can be imagined, of an aspect savageand dreadful. From this scene of wild magnificence, I brokeat once upon all the glories of Killarney; from an elevatedpoint of view I looked down on a considerable part of the lake,which gave me a specimen of Avhat I might expect. The wateryou command (which, however, is only a part of the lake)appears a basin of two or three miles round; to the left it isinclosed by the mountains you have passed, particularly by theTurk, whose outline is uncommonly noble, and joins a range ofothers that form the most magnificent shore in the world: onthe other side is a rising scener) of cultivated hills, an

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