PREFACE. THE Province of Ulster, distinguished alike by its early civilization and its present prosperity, has been comparatively little known to strangers, with the exception of a few of its more prominent localities, such as the Causeway, Belfast, Londonderry. The object of the present work is to conduct the Tourist not only to these great centres of attraction, but to lay open many localities not usually visited, and which are possessed of considerable historic and scenic interest. No part of Ireland affords a better field for the observation of character, whether we regard it as developed and brought to maturity in those busy hives of human industry-the manufacturing districts, or in its primitive simplicity-in the glens and mountains of the vast tracts which lie either insulated or in the western and eastern highlands of Donegal and Mourne. |