Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1879-10-25
Wseklg gntelligenter
nFFiCIsL COUNTY PAPER,
GWEEDORE AND HORN HEAD.

uFFICIsL COUNTY PAPER.
GWEEDORE AND HORN HEAD.
Especial Correspondent ofthe Irish Daily News
Befor. quitting Gweedore l should
moi omit 10 mention feature of the
hotel which is well deserving of im-
ta,ion. especially by country hotels.
Each of the private sitlhg-fco'n., as
we'll as the cofee-rOnm, Is proVlueu
with wtl!-selected little library OF
it's own, aid need hardly say what
a Resource this is i'll u country IN
w ,;ch. Ito matter what may be sald
t the contrary, it really does rain
8 .metimes. Gwee'lore presents III
inis respect Il marked contrast TO
that Nevada hotel of which the
American gentleman complimentary
ing that IN the W hole house you could
nnf discover single bible upon
which to strop your razor
Wps,w one thing, however, through
ont that part of Donegal which Is by
no means worthy oil imitation. anu
that is that too much hard outdoor
work is put upon the women. 1t Is
% lirful to see them carrying heaVy
baskets OF turf on their backs from
Ine bog ln where the cart is standing,
perhaps quarter of mile OIL, an"
- irrilny of indignation is added ire
uieutiv wien Que sees strong man
calmly smoking his piEe III the ln'er-
walls of filing The crerl Tor tn" girl.
One OF NV friends who has QuIXn-
lie hatred of all sorts of wrong, went
| Straiuh,wav np tn one oi these lazy
| tel ,ws and IL -kcd him what he meant
| hi il. The answer was splendid
mixture of casuistry and au"aclty.
why, you sec, sir, she's not strong
enough to lit il upon her lack. and
I'm strong enough 10 lift it npom her
| back" | benah to think that l had
before seen work done in this way.
Some are strong enough put it up
on other peoples backs, but they do
not always express themselves as
clearly rs did that countryman OF
niue.
AT Gwecdorc I saw very good
| specimen of hur>emauship. A pretty
burefouIed girl rode past on bare
backed horss', and us she pas sed she
gave him Il flick that sent him trot-
ing rapidly. Now, have seen sort
of g'u. !or sticking glass, &c., which
is su tenacious that IL hall hundred
seight will not separate the pieces
which haya been joined by il, and IL
felt at once that it would take sever
Il pounds of that glue, judiciously
| applied, To keep me safe in that girls
position.
Put not your trust in princes
neither place the slightest faith in
Eaicarr.gh as a place in which to get
your lunch. The stage car en- route tor
Dunfanaghy stopped at an every thing
shop, and suggested TO a young lady
behind tie counter that some beer
and sandwiches, or failing them,
bread aud butter would be accepta.
ble. The young lady drew herself up
aud said. "Sir, aUe sell no drink 6ut
wine and champagne ?" Apologizihg
!ur my mistake, | Withdrew, sadly
thinking of this confirmation of the
belief that champagne is largely COM
pounded of tie succulent goOseberry
and is innocent of the vine. Friends
of our social hours, Chester and Moet
and Wachter, are ye all false, and
Madame Cliquot, are you no better
than you should be? Perish the
thought. That girl must have made
Il mistake.
But there Ia hotel in Falcarragb,
the Errigal Hotel, and thither we ad-
journed i'll search of the beer and
sandwiches. In answer to our request
the landladv made very startling
and unusual statement. She said we
could not have any because the girl
was out. One of my friends offered
to show her that her statement was
illogical and inct nsecutlve, but the
nld lady would not be convinced, 80
we iourneyed on to Dunfanaghy,
where, fortunately, the girl was i'll.
should have remarked that the Erri-
gal Hotel has for sign picture of
the mountain of that name. look
ed in vain for the signature of any of
our great landscape painters in the
corner of the picture, and therefore
assume that it is by some of the old
masters of the locality. 1t is a re-
markable picture, especially having
regard to very large river which
lakes its rise about half way up the
mountain. 1t rushes out a well-de-
veloped river, say four miles wide
about the size, in fact, of the Amazon
at its widest part, and must be well
worth going all the distance to see.
| Dunfanaghy is the stopping-placc
for those who wish to see M'Swine's
Gun and the cliffs of Horn Head.
The former is rather disappointing
TO those who imagine, as L did, that
it is an upright shalt connected with
\ cavern in communication with the
sea, and that up this shaft the sea Is
forced in storm. All the guide
books 80 describe it, and perhaps this
'aay have been the formation in
former times, but at present it is
lmerely straight gully, with high
perpendicular sides opening to the
northwest and ending in a deep
cavern. One can easily imagine that
in great storm, when the waves
rush i'll with nothing nearer than
Greenland to break their force, the
rebound from that cavern is some
thing to be remembered. All local
accounts agree in saying that high
above the crash Of the greatest storm
can be heard for miles round the roar
of these terrible waves as they find
their career ended i'll that wild cave,
into which even OH the finest day it
would be difficult if not impossible
20 penetrate. EH
But the chief glory of this part of
Ireland is the north or sea front of
Horn Head. Here the cliffs, over 8O0feet
high, rush down perpendicularly into
the sea, and vast caves, the homes of
seals and innumerable wild birds,
open out like the doors of some great
cathedral thousand times enlarged.
Even in the calmest day, such as we
were favored with, the swirl Of wa
ters quietly moves your boat forty or
fifty feet to or from the cliffs at each
movement of the never -ceasing swell,
and you feel what that coast would
be were the winds to be unloosed.
From one end of the cliffs to the
other there is no spot from which
%uccour could be afforded to casta-
way, even if he were able 10 effect
landing on one of their wave-swept
shelves. do not hesitate to say that
anyone who has the good fortune to
row round the cliffs of Horn Head
will remember them to the last day
Of his life. Horn Head Is, however,
remarkable III another sense as being
The breeding ground of variety Of
wild birds hardly known elsewhere
III Ireland. 1t seems almost like read
ing about some of the South Sea
Islands to hear that in the spring
; curraghs from the opposite shore