rable. The view across the entrance of the Lough is worthy of note, of which Carrickfergus is the chief feature. Leaving this, we may make a short stay at the pretty little watering-place of HOLLYWOOD, the would-be Kingstown of Belfast, and one of the most favourite resorts of its inhabitants for recreation and sea-bathing. The short but well-appointed railway affords facilities of which the citizens are duly sensible. As might be expected, the village of Hollywood is changing its aspect very rapidly, and becoming an important marine suburb of Belfast, to which we return once more; and, for the present, take leave of the tourist, to enable him to collect his thoughts, and to meditate upon the pleasures of his excursion through Downshire. H CHAPTER III. THE ENVIRONS OF BELFAST. The Giant's Ring-The Round Tower of Drumbo-Cave Hill-The Basaltic Formation of the North. BEFORE we visit the coast scenery of Antrim there are a few objects of interest in the vicinity of Belfast, which could not be conveniently visited in the course of the last tour. One of those which will engage the attention of the antiquary is the Giant's Ring, a very remarkable and interesting Pagan antiquity. It is situated in the county of Down, beyond Malone House, near to Sir Robert Bateson's, of Belvoir. It is a large circular area, embracing about nine acres, surrounded by a high moat or embankment. In the centre of this space there is a Druid altar. Notwithstanding the wasting influence of time, the mound is still sufficiently high to hide the surrounding country from the sight of persons within the enclosure. Few things were more calculated to awe the mind and to affect the imagination than this scene, when we contemplate it as a vast heathen temple, within the circuit of which many thousands of people may have assembled to witness the awful rites of their sanguinary religion; and where no objects could attract their attention from |