Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-04-30
LETTER FROM BLUCHER.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN, April %, 187

entitled, x A fortnight III Ireland, which,
while it viewed the country through En-
glsh specs, contained good many truths
and valuable facts, which would not apply
to-day, for Ireland of to-day, and Ireland OF
thirty years ago are quite different countries.
l propose to describe few Of the changes OF
half century, observed during soJourn
of fortnight, after an absence OF some thlr-
ty-eight years; for | had the privilege OF
first opening NY eyes on that damp and fer
tile island, and a reslderce there OF some
eighteen years, before | had touched Amerl-
can soil, or learned to smoke and chew, and
swear in pure English. One sunny afternoon
in Jaly 1871, took my vahse, and hiring
"Hansome on the stand at St. George
Hall, Liverpool, drove to Albert Dock where
lay the neat little propeller, g Voltaire, on
which ] had engaged passage for the old
walled city of Derry, " The Maiden City
After very rough night got on deck, just
as the steamer got abreast of the 9 Twins, a
pair of rocks rising a few hundred yards apart
and perhaps quarter OF mile from the rocky
shore OF Antrim. Shortly after breakfast, We
passed Carrick- -Rede, an isolated rock
reached by a rope bridge from the mainland
over which a string of venturous women pass
every morning to gather cookies and wrinkles;
eggs of sea fowls and dulce, Crish moss
which they carry inland, and sell in all the
towns and villages; thickly scattered all over
that part of the country We missed, IN the
grey of the drizzly morning, the view Of the
ruins Of Dunlu ce Castle; the scene OF the
story of Bruce and the spider, but the clouds
lad scattered when reached the Chants
Causeway. and as in calm weather any yes
sci of any tonnage can run within a cable 5
length of the shore, We had full view of the
Giant; +" rough rock standing, isolated, at
the base of the cliff, and really presenting at
distance, a close resemblance, en- profile of a
gigantic human bust There is not much of
the curious formation of the CauseWay, visi-
bic on the sea front, the most pronounced
forms of capitalization occurring on the land
side of the cliff Just beypnd that strrated
ridge is the " Cathedral D with it's graceful
shafts, and regularly formed organ pipes, and
pavement of octohedral columns; the heads Of
each showing the saucer-hke mdentatlons
made by the knees of the giant as he stopped
to build that causeway to the coast of Scot
land for they say it reaches to that coast, sud
have no reason to doubt it, for [ know that
the formation runs down into the deep, but
perhaps, like the exercised devil in the swine,
it perishes there. The coast here is of char
acter unfamiliar to American seyes The
nearest approach to it is from Suisun to San
Francisco you go by steamer from Sacra-
mento There is the same nakedness, and
nearly the same effects. The coast range of
the Irish channel, Is simply a patchwork of
the most beautiful tints, reaching from the
summit of the bold hills to the very waters
edge, and there is no difficulty in separating
one field from another. for the stone fences,
and hawthorn hedges are easily distinguished
from the steamer deck That field of orange
tint, is clover: and that of pale green is fax;
and that deep green quadrangle is potatoes;
and that field over which shadows creep, like
thin clouds, is tall wheat or barley, moved
into gentle swell by the light breeze. Here
and there hamlet of white washed houses
relieved by miniature groves of ash and
rowan tree, dots the landscape, and a
church spire rises heavenward like angel
fingers pointing to the skies, and matched
cottages are scattered around on every hand.
1t is such scene as Claude Lorraine never
dreamed OF, and never painted, for no can
vass but natures, will ever produce such eff
fects. After passing the Giants Causeway,
and the d" yarmouth, the steamer reaches
1nnishowen Head the southern point of Don
egal, and enters Laugh Foyle! The distance
to Derry is short, but the scsnery is very re-
freshing after an ocean trip. Beautiful resi-
dences stud it's banks, with here and there
ruin, among which is that of "Downhill cas-
tie, the residence Of Sir Harvey Bruce be-
fore its destruction by fire. Stopping few
minutes at Moyille the little steamer haals up
at the quay, where on the 18th day Of May
1883, embarked ON the brig Ontario for
Liverpool and Philadelphia. What beauti
full history that gap would make From the |
landing road winds up to the gate at the |
foot of Bishop street and hundred yards off |
l deposit my traps at I" The Imperial" kept |
by Mir Jerry who runs houses at Queenstown,
Dublin and Belfast; all "Imperials," and if |
any peripstetic reader of the APPEAL goes
abroad We ask him to give Jerry call, ex-
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