The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-21 00:00:00

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Bon EARTH.—A Monsieur Orguesson, a Swede by birth,
and proprietor or immense portions of land in the neighbour-
hood of Helsingfors in Finland, has invented an apperatus,
by means of which he renders bog earth earth as bard and
compact as coal. In this state it easily takes tire, gives a
pure and brilliant flame, and produces as much heat, if not
more, than coal.
SEA BATH ING.—lintne Tooke ridiculed sea bathing, and
said, if any of the seal species were -sick, it would be Just as
wise for a fish physician to Order them to go ashore. Porson
declared that sea bat hiug was only reckoned healthy, because
many persons have been known to survive it. But Slwridan's
objection to salt water was must quaint:—" Pickles," he
said, "don't agree with me."

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INCFEASE OF STEAM POWER IN LANCASHIRE AND ITS
ISISIEDIATE ViciNlTY.—iieturnes taken from a parliament-
ary document, afford sonic notion of the astonishing progress
which the cut ton manufacture has made in Lancashire, since
the year 1535. Flom the most complete returns that have
yet been procured of the steam power existing in the manu-
facturing districts, and which were furnished by inspectors of
factories, it appears, that the total steam power employed in
the cotton mills of Lancashire and Cheshire was -24,59/
horses. The increase since 1825, including the mills now its
erection, is, according to the account, 17,413 horses, Of which
2.036 are destined for purposes not connected with the enttan
manufacture, 15,377 as the increase in the cotton manufacture
alone. which amounts to 62 per cent upon the power existing
in the whole of the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire at
the date of the former returns.—Journal if the Stills:kat
Society of London.
ENNtsKEithy.—Proceeding by the south side of Dublin,
and crossing the Dodder, a small river emptying itself into
the bay at Ifingsend, we soon reach the village of Milltoam
and a little onward that of Dundi ton. On clearing the
town, the environs on this side at once assume a rural cha-
racter. The villas, though small, are numerous; and the
proximity to the mountains, the salubrity of .the air, and the
means of recreation afforded by the numerous roads branch-
ing. off in various directions, have long rendered this place
generally attractive to the citizens, and to invalids a place of
frequent resort. Beyond Dundrum the road skirts the base
of the mountain ranges, through which our road winds to the
termination of this route ; passing on the right several of the
granite quarries opened far the supply of building stone. On
the left, the (touched fragments of that rock attest what the
surface of this immediate portion of the country must
_have
been some years a"o. From this road you command a view
of the city; and eastward, that tract covered with villas,
through which the various lines of road from Dublin to Bray
run; the more conspicuous from their elevation and proximi-
ty, being Mount Annvide and Mount Merrion. A little
beyond Dundrum, on the right, is Moreen, the villa of Mr.
M'Key ; and near it, on the rame side, the cottage of Alder-
man barley, remarkable from its situation on the hill side.
In the lower grounds to the left, are the old castle, church
ruins, and village of Kileetibin ; and a mile farther the village
of, Kitternan—Kilterna4 House, the residence of Mr. Ander-
son, lying a little to the right. On the hilt side to the left,
are the Lead Mines. Passing oil the right, Springfield, the
villa of Thomas Thompson, Esq., romantically situated at
the commencement of that remarkable ravine, well known
as the Scalp. The road now enters the county of Wicklow,
and soon teaches Enniskerry, which 1s delightfully situated
in a deep valley, watered by one of the streams running into
the Bray river. The picturesque cottages, the sceuery around
the neighbourhood, and the improvements of the proprietor,
Lord Powerscaurt, render this the must interesting of the.
small places around Dublin. It is much frequented by the
citizens; and is the first stage to the Seven Churches. There
is a comfortable inn, and several respectable lodging houses
—good cars and horses can also be hired. The road leaving
Enniskerry is very steep; this, however, might he remedied
by a line traversing the sloping grounds, up which the present
road is carried. Proceeding, we pass close to the tine seat of
Viscount Powerscourt on the right; and in the valley below,
Tinnehiech, James Grattan, Esq., M.P. The house, a plain
edifice, is close 14) the road, in an angle of that beautifully
wooded valley, a branch of which commences at the Water-
fall and extends to Bray. It connects also with Glencree,
and contains the Powerscourt deer-park, and the ravine of
the Dargie. It is watered by seves al strestms, bearing various
local names, which tun front the mountain ravines and glens,
and uniting in their progress downwards, are borne in one
channel, called the Bray river, to the sea. Beyond Tinne-
hinch, on the right, is Charleville. the seat of the Earl of
liathdow n ; and on the left, Bushy Park, lion. Ilugh Howard.
. Fraser's Guide through Irelond.
THE :SEVEN CHURCHES.--At the confluence of the above
streams, and at the base i,f Derry bawn mountains, is Derry-
bairn, the sea: of W. T. Bookey, Esq. The house is a neat
modern edifice, and stand, in a thicket of trees, which con-
nect with the extensive ,plantations on the mouutain side.
From the nature of the soil, the low grounds of this demesne
have been improved at a vast expense; they stretch for a
considerable distance down the banks of the Avnntnore river,
and tip the Glendalough stream, including the southern side
of the lough; and as far as they are cultivated, the richness
of the verdure contrasts strnnelv with the sterility around.
The extensive copse-wood of Ballard, in front of the house,
gives the place quite a forest character. The village of
Laragh, close to the bridge, contains one or two good public
houses, whew parties oecasionally stop. The ruins of the
Seven Churches he about half a mile west of Laragh bridge;
they are merely the scattered fragments of what appears to
have originally been, with two or three exceptions, small
rule buildings. The principal group, consisting of the
Cathedra, Our Lady's Church, St. Kevin's Kitchen, and the
Round Tower, stands 00 0 grassy eminence rising over the
small piece of water called Ponlanass, which is detached
from the lake. You enter she wed-tenanted cemetery, which
surrounds the cathedral by a ruined archway. The other
ruins, which appear to he pressed into the service to make
up the mystical number seven, are scattered along the road
side and opposite shores of the lake;—they are now merely
. masses of mouldering walls, with scarcely any architectural
feature remaining, end are termed the Ivy Church, ithefeari
Church, The Abbey. anti Teain-pull-na-Skelliy. The lake is
about a mile in length by a fourth in breadth; it is supplied
by two streasulets which run down the steep sides of the
mountains; that on the south side runs through a deep
wooded ravine, which separates the mountain at Derrybawn
from the mine lofty Lugduff, and is called the Poolanass
brook; it forms- a beautiful casade on a sniall scale, as it
forces its way through the chasms of the rocks; the other,
on the western end of the lake, called Glancola, runs be-
tweenLugduff and Comaderry. anti when the stream is full,
has
a go)
falling rapidly down the naked rock. The
(d
effect,
mountain boundaries of the lake are lofty and precipitous,
and rise ja many places almost per from t he,deep,
dark waters; the shores are well fringed with underwood;
and the mountain ash, birch, oak, and holly, wherever they
can obtain a footing, serve to relieve and soften the sternness
of the mountain sides. There is nothing picturesque in the
scenery of Glendalough; It is of a sterile and melancholy
character, not bold enough certainly ins
someini
tsfefaetp4uirneas tititniied n
lie de-
nominated grand; and it it produces
the sublime, this is not owing to this majestic features of the
scenery hut to its solitary and sombre nature, and to the
associations which are perhaps awakened by the crumbling.
relics of other\days—so perfectly in unison with that cha-
racter.—Frassr's Guide through Ireland. -