Arizona citizen., 1873-09-06

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 rocks are not prpendicr lar and too
 smooth for the moss to catch, but they
 lend certain b.eakness to the coun-
 try not as l would have 1t. There
 are several real mug noun, aims round
 the Killarney Lakes, whicl would be
 completely grald as wei as enchant-
 ing, but for thr.. But understand, 1
 did not come hore 10 look for natural
 scenery superio. to much # Cur own,
 but for art in connection. md "my
 lords" Herbert ard Kennare, who
 own the lakes and Ii of county Kerry,
 have done tor thei, predecessors have)
 about all that could be to render that
 corner of the Old Sod one graud park.
 In fact, Ireland Is al one teat park,
 alongside of vhich Fairmont at Phil
 adelphia is but a sorry fy-speck.
 Limerick, on the vest side of the
 island, Is located nore beautifully
 upon the river Shannon than Cork
 upon the Lee. From there over to the chief city, Duhin, on this the east side; thence up the coast to Bel fast, the northeastern and most enter prising city in the country. Its linen manufactures renders 1t most active and the only city in Ireland that nearly holds its own in population. Emigration is getting ahead of the baby business, and l appreciate the poets song Of
 "There came r. the beach a poor exile
 of Erin,
 The dew on his thin robe was heavy and
 chill"
 Really his robes are as rule as seedy as an old thistle patch, and the only thing that prevents the winds from making a similar settlement, is the great amount of rain, which poetry converts into dew. Whenever Pat Is short of water, he just puts ill more whisky; aud both he and his wife have place to put it. 1 saw an old girl at Cork stop her mug with four glasses raw in quick succession. 1 went out then and kissed the bust of Father Mathew, whose great ex- ample hos evidently gone to Geed in Cork-his native home. There are very few four wheeled vehicles in Ire land, and of all the cart-constructed concerns on earth. the jaunting car is the most deliciously absurd 1t Is as enjoyable at first as a boys first brooches and sliding down hill. 1 l had ridden most all sorts of animals from steer to mustang-but 1 just thought this proved to be the king pin of vehicles. The wheels are | all covered over as 1t were by a great ] broad pack-saddle, On which you sit 1 5idewise like woman, but with both | feet in the stirrup We went out to Blarney Castle and the groves in this thing, and with the widest sort of a 1 Pat foc driver tta.43 we could afford to | ill him with beer at two cents 8 l 1rink), we had the devils own spree. ! am satisfied of it. II was the gay est sort of foolery for change 1 had | ever met with. Kingston, Jamaica, las a species of turnout that makes a man feel quite as ridiculous the first 5ime, but the Irish jaunting-car forever Tor my money now. Blarney Castle . tt Cork, and Muckross Abbey at Kil- arney, are the two most interesting ,elics or ruins 1 have yet visited; both Il good state of preservation consider ng. Blarney is the older-allnost The main tower is as of ,ld-120 feet high. There has been many Q bully fight in and round its trong walls, and l dcn know that Ireland is much less barbarous for the .hange from feudelism to aristocratic ule. There IS @ constabulary police orce of B, 900 in Ireland, besides the egular military stations. Excepting his place, its other three chief cities Ire brilliant with uniforms. Am sor- y l was not here for the Spring or Orange fight. The bloody Boyne iyer looked peaceable as goats milk nd whisky { mountain dew " as ooked at it this morning from the plendid bridge twenty-five miles this ide of Dublin. I have thousand nd one things feel like writing you the most interesting to me, in fact but your space will not admit, to ay nothing of your patience. W.