informations about his person, and therefore they waylaid him, and succeeded in keeping him out of sight until the Assizes were over, and shortly after this imprudent and unconstitutional law was repealed.

But to return to Glen Veagh-as we were rambling along its rocky strand, admiring the stillness of its waters-the sublime solitari. ness of its mountain shore-here a ravine, climbing up amongst the hills; its chasms and its dancing waterfalls, fringed with birch and stunted oak-there a white silicious peak, protruding itself on high, over which the hawk cowered, as if priding itself on its inaccessible nest-before us the sleeping lake, extending itself

“Blue, dark, and deep, round many an Isle."

and these isles set like precious gems, with just enough of trees for ornament-the birch, the rowan ashe, the service, the holly-and high from the central, largest and most distant island, arose a blue and wreathed smoke, that bespoke the manufacture of mountain dew-the smoke certainly added

much to the picturesque accompaniment of the scene, and we could just discern a small cabin or sheeling in the island, half concealed amidst the copsewood in which it was enveloped.

I could not help expressing a wish to see the process whereby this admired liquor was compounded, that in the estimation of every Irishman-aye, and high-born Englishman too-is so superior in sweetness, salubrity, and gusto to all that machinery, science and capital can produce in the legalized way— and which verifies the observation of the wise man, "that stolen waters are sweet.". Just as we were conversing in this way, a man turning the point of a rock, stood unexpectedly within a few yards of us. He was one of the largest men I have ever seen amongst the Irish commonalty. He was tall, that is not unusual; but he was lusty, his bones and muscles were covered with fleshthere was a trunk-like swell in his chest, and a massiveness in his body-a pillar like formation of limbs bespeaking that he was a

man moulded to be a giant, and was fed up to the full exercise and capability of his frame. He had a bull-like contour of head and neck, short and crisp curls appeared from under a small hat which seemed unable to settle itself over his ears, from the full development of the organ of combativeness that protruded itself in this region of his cranium.

The man stood before us with the assured look of one who was prepared saucily to say, what business have you here-two greyhounds were at his heels, and a lurking grisly cur, half bull-dog, half terrier, shewed his white teeth and began to growl. Oh, how are you Teigue,' cried my friend, (who, I believe, knows every one in Donegal) 'how are you my gay fellow, I am glad to see you, for you are just the man in all these mountains that I wanted to see?'-'Why, then, your honour, I am entirely obliged to you, and in troth when I just came upon you now, I did not know your honour-for as I was just walking over the mountain I saw some strange unco people, and I only slipt down to see the cut of

their countenances.'

'Ah, Teigue ; I know rightly you do not like unco people, for fear that a gauger might be amongst them'-' Ah, then, now, is it I fear a gauger ?—Teigue O'Gallaghan, fear a gauger!-no, nor a Commissioner from Dublin Custom-house, barring he had army and guns at his back-not I by my troth, for its little I'd matter just taking one of them by the waistband of the breeches and filluping him, do you see, into the middle of the lake, and there leave him to keep company with the trouts-no, no; but the likes of you-no offence master, the likes of you I mean, not in the inside, but teeth outwards, might come and give information, and put dacent people to trouble, and be after bringing the army here to this quiet place and put us out of our way and all that.'

'Well, Teigue, you know me don't you?'-'I do your honour, and am sartain sure that you are true and of the right sort, and every inch about you honest.'- Well, Teigue; I want to get this gentleman, who is a friend of mine, on the lake; he desires to get into a

boat to see its beauties more conveniently, besides he has a longing wish to see how the hearty drop is made, can you indulge him?' "That I will, and a thousand welcomes; so away he went towards the point of the rock which jutted out into the water, and putting his finger to his mouth, he sent forth a whistle that sounded over the lake, and thus reverberating, echoed from bay to bay, and multiplied itself through the glens and gorges of the mountains; at the same time he made some telegraphic signal, and in a minute we saw a boat push off from the island of Smoke. While Teigue was absent, I asked my friend who he was?-why, says he, that is one of the most comfortable and independent fellows in all this mountain district-he exerts a muscular and moral influence over the people; he has a great deal of sense, a great deal of determination; a constant view to his own interest; and luckily he considers that interest best promoted, by keeping the country in peace. Those that fall out he beats into good humour, and when the weight of his argument