The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-04-13

bouIders, like the limits of the arena"
In going to the Causeway, we left
Belfast at four in the afternoon, aud in
three hours were at Port Rush, where
We found one Of the neatest hotels in
ireland. Port Rush, with its pure sea
air, its splendid beach, and its proximi
ty to the Giants Uauseway, is watering
place Of some note. In the morning we
took n jaunting car,-one of the iusti-
tutions of Ireland and driver, who
was another Of its institutions, to visit
the Causeway, about seven miles dis
tant. The drive along the bluffs of the
sea shore aud through the country was
full Of enjoyment. 1t was the month
Of June, when the Emerald Isle was 10
its greenest garb. With fresh wind
from the North, the sea was rolling in
its mighty waves to dash them ou the
shore and against the beetlibg cliffs and
into the deep caverns. Our driver was
fine specimen of an Irishman-intel.
ligent, lively, witty, and withal some.
thing OF philosopher, and he enter
tanned us the whole distance with his
talk about the country aud its people.
He had 6ne horse, which he iuvaria
bly, addressed as girl, lass or woman
aud which seemed to be in perfect sym
pathy with the driver. As we passed a
field of grain which had been eaten
down in the spring and injured by the
rabbits, asked il the country people
were not allowed to shoot or trap the
rabbits. "Not when seeu," was Pat.
rick's reply, which meant more than il
expressed. He gave US tho legends OF
the country as We passed along, aud oil
the Causeway, with more funess and
far more fancy than the guide book
but was careful to add that he didn't
tell them all for candid truth, bnt only
as he had heard them, and we must Just
take our own judgment about how much
to believe Pointing to high ledge ol
rocks some hundred yards from the
shore, he said it was caused thus: When
the mother Of Fin McCoul, the giant,
was building the Causcway across from
Ireland to Scotland for her 500 a, she
was carrying the stones cut into the sea
her praskin (aproa) string broke anL
tumhled a praskin.full into that spot
aud that was how they came there. She
was able TO step from these rocks to the
shore, aud in another step, to the Cause
way, more than a mile distant. "Wo
men were strong and active 10 those
days" said Patrick Again he pointed
out rough profile, about forty feet
long, on the rocks, aud said, "Some cal
it Napoleons face, and some the Pope
just tell you what | see, aud you can
give it either name you like. Whether
it is Napoleon's or the Pope's, lie la.
caught sound rap on the nose, as you
can see for yourself" Two more faces
he said, were Fin McCouls aud hi:
great grandmother's, and added, "They
had long noses and long chins in tn,
Fin McCoul family, but then they lived
long time ago" The wishing arch
standing in the water, Patrick said, was
called so because every one going under
it eau have whatever he wishes for
provided he goes through on foot dry
shod aud wishes for the right thing thai
'o'H surely come TO pass. Aud so hC
entertained us with the legends Of the
place, the Giants Corn loaf, the grea
bowl in the rock for making family por
ridge, Dunluce Castle, &c.,--and will
his genuine Irish wit, until we reached
the Causeway, which | have briefly dc
scribed above Patrick was true po
litical economist, aud gave the solution
of the woes Of the South of Ireland il
a breath; The reason they do no
thrive in the South is, that they vii
not work. They might do just as wei
there as here, if they were Industrious