round that point to the head of Lough Carlingford, | Torglass, Stags of Arranmore, Gola, Innismeen, it is a narrow, unindented belt of shore-ground, im- and Innisirrer, between Teelin Head and Bloodymediately and stupendously overhung by the alpine Foreland; Innisbeg, Innisdoey, Innisboffin, and acclivities and summits of the Mourne mountains. Frenchman's Rock, between Bloody-Foreland and The great bays or sea-loughs which either bound Malin Head; Innistrahull, Garvan Isles, Sheep Ulster or indent its coasts are Donegal bay, partly Island, Carrickarede, and Innisfidda, between Malin indenting the western district, but chiefly lying on Head and Fair Head; the Maidens, Hunter Rock, the boundary with Connaught; Lough Swilly, pene- and Isle of Muck, between Fair Head and Belfast trating the west coast deeply southward, from a Lough; the Copeland Islands, Black Rock, Long point nearer Malin Head than Bloody Foreland; Rock, Skullmartin, Burial Island, Little Plough Lough Foyle, penetrating the north coast in the Rock, Plough Rock, the Feathers, North Rocks, direction of south-west by south, and forming a great the Scotchman, South Rock, Hem's Rock, and triangular interior expansion; Belfast Lough, run- Angus Rock, between Belfast Lough and Lough ning up the eastern sea-board south-westward, be- Strangford; a profusion of Rocks and islets, and tween the counties of Antrim and Down; Lough several inhabited isles, within Lough Strangford; Strangford, forming a great lagoon, north-north- and St. Patrick's Rocks, Collet's Rock, Gun's westward, within the champaign part of Down, so Island, and Cow and Calf, between Lough Strangas to extend nearly parallel with the coast; and ford and Lough Carlingford. Numerous features of Lough Carlingford, extending north-westward on the coasts of Ulster, additional to those here glanced the boundary between Ulster and Leinster. The at, will be found noticed in our articles on the counchief of the small bays and estuaries which indent ties of DONEGAL, ANTRIM, and DOWN, and in the the coast are Ballyshannon Harbour, Donegal Har- early sections of our GENERAL INTRODUCTION. bour, Inver bay, Macs wine's bay, Fintragh bay, and Surface.]-The surface of Ulster is much more Kilcar bay, off the Ulster portions of the bay of Done- diversified, more beautiful in the aggregate, and gal; Malin bay, Glen bay, Loughrusbeg, Lough- greatly freer from bogs and level grounds, than any rusmore, Dauros bay, Guibarra bay, Trawenagh bay, of the other three provinces of Ireland. One vast Maghera bay, Innisfree bay, and Guidore bay, be- congeries of mountains, exceedingly various in outtween the entrance of Donegal bay and Bloody- line, in grouping, and in the character of their interForeland; Currane bay, Port bay, Ballyness bay, secting glens and vales, occupies most of the western Sheephaven, Tranarossan bay, Mulroy bay, Black section of the province, or the greater portion of co. bay, between Bloody-Foreland and Lough Swilly; Donegal, a large portion of co. Londonderry, a large Strathbreaga bay, between Lough Swilly and Malin portion of co. Tyrone, a considerable portion of co. Head; Culdaff bay, Tremone bay, and Kinnagoe Fermanagh, and a small portion of co. Cavan; and, bay, between Malin Head and Lough Foyle; the excepting in the range of the Sperrin mountains, mouth of the river Bann, Portstewart Harbour, along the mutual border of Londonderry and Tyrone Portrush Harbour, and Ballycastle bay, between [see SPERRIN], this enormous congeries-exceedLough Foyle and Fair Head; Murlough bay, Cush-ingly the largest in Ireland is nowhere drawn out endun bay, Red bay, Glenarm bay, and Lough into ranges or systems of any considerable extent, Larne, between Fair Head and Belfast Lough; but consists of mere groups, assemblages, and even Donaghadee Harbour, Cloghy bay, Quintin bay, isolated masses of individual mountains. Very many and Millin bay, between Belfast Lough and Lough of the summits have altitudes of between 1,500 and Strangford; and Ardglass Harbour, Killough bay, 2,000 feet above sea-level; a few have altitudes even and Dundrum bay, between Lough Strangford and upwards of 2,000 feet; and by far the majority are Lough Carlingford. The principal headlands are too lofty and conspicuous to be designated mere hills. Ardara Point, Murvagh Point, Doorin Point, St. The basins of the Loughs Macnean and Lough MelJohn's Point, Drumanoo Point, Muckross Point, and vin break precipitously down among the mountains Carrigan Head, within Donegal bay; Teelin Head, at on the boundary with Connaught; the extensive, the north side of the entrance of Donegal bay; Rossan grand, and brilliant basin of Lower Lough Erne, Point, Dauros Point, Aughris Point, Roshin Point, broadly dissevers the mountains a brief distance east Bloody Foreland, Rough Point, Ummera Point, of the boundary with Connaught; a rich yet diversiHorn Head, Pointahomash, Ballyrooskey Point, fied plain continues, and even greatly expands, the and Fannet Point, between Donegal bay and Lough disseverment westward from the foot of Lower Swilly; Dunaff Head, Malin Head, Glengad Head, Lough Erne to all the head of Donegal bay; a very Dunmore Head, and Innishowen Head, between extensive granitic plain, bleak, moorish, wild, and Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle; Magilligan Point, half-chaotic, lies between the central portion of the Giants' Causeway, Pleskin Head, Bengore Head, western section of the vast mountain congeries and Kenbane Head, Fair Head, Tor Point, Garron the Atlantic ocean; the basin of Lough Swilly and Point, Ballygawley Head, Skeenaghan Point, the an isthmus of beautiful low country from the head Gobbins, Black Head, and White Head, between of it to the valley of the Foyle, completely peninsu Lough Foyle and Belfast Lough; Grey Point, Bal- late Innishowen, or cut off the mountains of that lymacormuck Point, the Briggs, Foreland Point, barony from those of the great body of the congeries; Ballyferis Point, Slanes Point, Blackneb, and Bal- innumerable vales, glens, defiles, and 'slacks—many lyquintin Point, between Belfast Lough and Lough of them sinuous and fitful in outline, and a large proStrangford; and Killard Point, St. John's Point, portion eminently picturesque in character-cut into Mullartown Point, Leestone Point, and Cranfield fragments nearly the whole of the mountain region Point, between Lough Strangford and Lough Car- in the interior of Donegal, Tyrone, and Londonderry, lingford. The islands of largest size are Arran and along most of the mutual border of the first and and Tory, on the west coast of Donegal; Inch, in the second of these counties; the splendid valley of Lough Swilly; and Rathlin, or Raghery, on the the Foyle, broad, undulated, and beautiful, occupies north coast of Antrim. The chief of the isles and the northern part of the mutual border of Donegal islets are Hugh Island, Bell's-Isle, Carrickfad, and and Tyrone, and the whole of the small western Innisduff, in the bay of Donegal; Rathlin-O'Byrne border of the county of Londonderry; a broad and Islands, Tormore Ísland, Innisbarnog, Roaninish, | rich band of champaign seaboard extends, within the Imiskeel, Upper Innisfree, Inniskeera, Eighter, county of Londonderry, between the foot of the Imisinay, Laghan, Cruit, Owey, Lower Innisfree, mountains and the shores of Lough Foyle and the