wolf; full of a mother's fears, she ran towards the cry, and forgot to close the well-out then the waters of destiny, flowed in overwhelming tides, so much so, that not only the woman and her child, but all the people universally, and the cattle of the whole country, were by a particular and judicial providence, overwhelmed in the waters-and thus the Author of nature announced that land to be unworthy of inhabitants, which had been conscious of such enormous turpitude; and to this very time the fishermen as they urge their barks along in calm clear days, can observe under them, houses, and chimnies, and castles, and churches, and more especially those church turrets which according to the usage of Ireland, are not only narrow and high, but round withal-so far the worthy Welshman -the Irish historians as usual find fault with him for presuming to say that any of their countrymen should be so wicked; therefore, though they do not deny the miracle, they warmly try to shove the crime off the natives' shoulders, and fix it upon some Scotch

Islanders, who, as usual, fond of leaving their own country, are not very fortunate in conciliating the affection of the natives amongst whom they settle.

Bad as the origin of this lake is, St. Columkill, whose fame follows me wherever I travel through Donegal, it seems, took its curse off; and although it was not granted him to float away its waters, yet by his especial blessing and prevailing prayer, he not only obtained a peculiar fecundity of fish for it, with which it has ever since been blessed, but moreover, in order to accommodate the salmon whom he observed one day tiring themselves to death trying to bounce up the fall of Beleek, he prayed away many feet of the precipice down which the water tumbles; and from that day forth, the salmon found what was before cruelly laborious, now a very pleasant exercise for their fins and tails.

From the place where we first caught a full and open view of this lake, as we descended from the dreary mountainous moor over which

we had been journeying, there appeared underneath, between us and the shore of the lake, a fine ruin of an old castle, with its lofty keep and square bawn, flanked by four round towers. This beautiful ruin stood upon a green hilly lawn, that swept down to the water's edge, and on its verdant knolls hundreds of sheep were depasturing; alighting to walk down a hill, I asked an old man, what was the name of that ruined castle : he told me the name, and I forget it; but of the builder he informed me the story went, that he was a poor man, who in ancient times went abroad upon the seas, and there joined pirates and buccaniers; and amidst blood and battle, and cruel deeds, he amassed wealth, which he succeeded in bringing home with him; and he came and purchased these lands and built that castle, and here he lived only to watch over his money; and the pleasure of his existence was to look at, and his sole occupation to guard it ;—and so the miser lived, and it was a pity that where his treasure was, that the heart of his

body and the soul, could not for ever dwell: so he buried his gold in one of the dungeons of the castle, and in the pride of his preserved secret, died.-People calling themselves his relations, came looking after his effects, and here they found his castle,-and here his land that he could not carry away; but where the gold was disposed of, none could tell. So they dug here and they dug there, until they undermined the building, and as you see, the greater part of it tumbled down. One man who called himself the rightful heir, dreamt, as well he might, concerning the money, and coming by night, rooted in one of the vaults: he brought trusty men to help him, and torches to give light: and so, after digging with infinite pains and trouble, they came to a plate of metal that sounded hollow under their mattocks a ring was seen connected with the plate whereby it could be raised, and lo, just as they lifted it up and saw the yellow pieces lying in untold quantities under their very feet, and within their very grasp;-it was then that the heir, uttering a blasphemous

and exulting cry, exclaimed, that "in spite of God or Devil, he was a great and happy man ;" and lo, a withered and unearthly arm stretched itself forth from the darkness of the vault and extinguished the torches; and amidst yells and mocking laughter; stones, and dust, and brickbats tumbled about their ears; so that bloody and beaten, in terror they quitted the ruin, never to return so there is the old castle, --and there, for ought I know, is the money unto this very day.

I arrived in the morning at Petigo, a little town situated amidst pretty green and wooded hills about one mile from the lake. It was not necessary to enquire for the sign of the Hog in Armour, or the Cat and Bagpipes, or for the Head of Wellington or St. Patrick, in order to select the inn at which I desired to breakfast, there being but one house of entertainment in the village. Now gentle reader, I would have you to know that in a village of this moderate size, in Leinster, or Munster, or Connaught, off the