flat roofed temples of Thebes or Tentyra. Below the stratum of clouds the atmosphere was very clear, and all the gorges and chasms and sweeping indentures of the mountains, were as distinct as possible and thus if you could be content to take the Reeks with their night-caps on, you had an opportunity to enjoy in full perfection all the beauties of their lower regions. In this way, turning my body on this side and that side of my gig, in order to catch a view of the ever varying scene through which I was passing; at length, at a turn of the road, I came full upon the Upper Lake of Killarney-and my good reader, I beg here to be excused from giving a description of what has been described in tours, travels, and guides, a thousand times over. If you are a rich reader, questionless you have spent some of your superfluous cash in seeing all this magnificent picture with your own eyes; if you are poor you have nothing better to do than send to a circulating library for Weld's Travels, or any other writer on Killarney that you fancy. you One secret I will be good-natured enough to make master of I am told it is very expensive, very troublesome, and sometimes attended with infinite discomfort, taking a boat on those lakes-now, I verily believe, that if on horseback, or in a jaunting-car, or gig, you take an excursion from Killarney town for ten miles along this new road towards Kenmare which I travelled, you will see Upper, Middle, and Lower Lake, more to your satisfaction than if you went in a boat. I remained but one day at Killarney-business not pleasure brought me to be sure when business was done, I was not such a dull dolt as not to make the most of my time, and see Mucruss and Turk mountain, and Mangerton, and the Devil's Punch Bowl. In a word, Mr. Reader, even suppose you were at the Lakes-even suppose you are young and active, and made the most of your time, yet I am bold to say, that I saw as much in four hours as you could, or ever will do in the same space of time. -- C. O. |