The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-30 00:00:00

THE LAKES OP KILLARNEY.

Although actually one and the name body of
water, one lake in • rest measure supplying the others,
still they are divided into parts—Lough Leave, or the
Lower Lake; Nuances, Tore, or the Middle Lake—sod the
Upper Lake—with • aver called the Long Rouge, two and
a.halt miles in length. running from the Upper to the
Middle Lake. The Lower Lake is five miles long by
three miles broad the Middle two miles by nos
bawd; and the Upper Lake, two and a half miles by
three-quarters of a mile in breadth. Besides is number of
smeller amides, there are four particularly worthy of
notice :—The Tom Cascade, about four miles from Kil-
larney town, said to be the finest of the Lake Waterfalls ;
Derricunnilly Cascade, eight and three-quarter miles dis-
tant • Esknemucky, six and a half miles distant ; and
O'Sullivan's Cascade, four and • half miles ; the but men-
tioned visited from Ross Island, by boat ; the
other three may lie visited by road from Killarney. The
61110 M of the Lower Like is dotted with islands of various
sire and form, some of them connected with the surrounding
shores and with each other by bridges constructed so as to
appear in keeping with the surrounding scenery. Ou the
Lower Lake there are thirty islands ; on the Middle, four •
and on the Upper, six • but none of the last are of a largie
Mar It is said that the circumference of the entire Is about
thirty utiles. The Upper Lake is in ita level five fest higher
than the Middle or Lower Lakes, which are only separated
from each other by a narrow strip of land projecting from
Muckroeu island ; the Upper fake is two miles distant from
the necrest point of the Middle Lake.
. . .

From the immediate vicinity of the town, a chain of
mouotains fully forty miles in length is distinctly visible ;
those in the immediate vicinity of the lakes are very impo-
sing io their appearance, varyuig as they do from 1,100 to
3.400 fort in height above the level of the set. The prin-
cipal of these are trOißycoddy's Reek, upwards of 3,400
reef ; sisiissrtoo, 2,700 ; Purple Mountain the same height ;
mi e‘, 2,44 M ; The Devil's Punch Bowl, 2,200; Tom,
i,7ro; nod the Eagle's Nest, 1,100.

How TO SUCCETTO IN BIIINNEN4.—The public
have frequently been warned against being duped by
advertisera who request them to Memo a number of
postage-stamps as payment for some valuable piece of in-
formation which they are prepared to give, but we have
not beard of a more flagrant, and at the same time amusing,
Umtata* of "how the thing is done" than the following:—
A hopeful ycung man, who recently coromemed bushier. in
Newsrk, sans attracted by the trap of en advertiser, who,
for a considenttion, professed to give information " How
to succeed in business ;" and in order to obtain the secret
he remitted halfs-crown's worth of postage stamps. In
Whethly he received the advice "Turn a methodist."
er
lie will act on the suggestion in order to complete
the experiment, remains to he seen.—Nottimraant Journal.
Ax AOND Rnersz.—Last week, an old woman
named Lakin, residing in Rectory.plece, Loughborough,
wert to take dinner for her son, who was reaping, and
whilst he was engaged in feasting upon the provisions she
had brought, the old lady, wbo is no less than ninety-eight
years old, took the aicklo, and after remarking that in her
younger days she usod to be expert at reaping, and she
would just try whether she had forgotten how now, set to
work rod speedily cut seven or eight &eaves.