The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-12-19
IRISH SKETCHES.

4 New Arcadia - sstitmg into the !
RoweIs of the Earth-The Peasant :
lore OF Irish NOBILITY - A Romance
In Real Idfe-Au old Ricck aud Its Q
CHIP.
The broad acres, and there are thousands
npon thousands Of Them OF the estate Of Lord Bantry
extend for miles aud miles around either side of
Bantry bay, and include the outlying Islands
tIruous to that portion the southwestern Of
ireland. Tourists from all parts OF the world visit
this estate, and Thackeray described the scenery
thcreabouts as the switzerland Of the United King
dom. Nestled among the most romantic surround
ings, where frowning mountains, bleak and bare,
masses upon masses OF rocks towering above each
other, surround Giengarin barbor Is the town from
which that snug estuary, the head of Bantry bay,
takes Its name. But these gigantic mountains are
rent with wide issure-ike valleys, wherein the POM
egranite and other tropical fruits grow, as u In
hot house OF natures own providing, and where the
climate though humid at al, seasons Is amenabe to
soft southern sun, and as consequence is temperate
the year round.
/ Further down the bay, fourteen or fifteen miles
below Glengarif, In smaller estuary, is Adrgoie
cave, physical wonder, not laid down In the guide
books; but "sight" worth seeing. You enter 1t In
q row-boat at mud-tde and penetrate Its cavernous
depths to the distance OF Ave six hundred yards
sailing or rather rowing, right Into the bowels of the
earth; above you massive arches OF rock, scntatng
with the hues Of eyudng copper In Its most natural
and untarnished brilancy; below you the transparent
waters Of the Atlantic In which you see clearly the
startled fish, shining like silver and gold, swimming
from your approach and fleeing to the outlet over
whelmed with fright. The walls OF this
are spotted all over with brilliantly colored anemone,
and sea urchIns blood red pink russell brown black,
and yellow, which add to the fairy like enciantment
OF the place. No dramatic spectacle produced by |
human hands could equal the gorgeousness OF this
natural groio OF the sea- The dripping OF the oars,
the heavy breathing Of the the slightest
sound, awakens mysterious and long reyerberating
echoes and the dulest fancy could not fail to people
It with Naads and Trltons or Imagine that old Nep-
tune himself might seek Its quiet and solemn repose
when tired Of battling with the elements.
A few miles further down the bay, nearer the
ocean, Is another and smaller harbor land. locked
and calm, and smooth as glass; Into which light
draught fishing smacks nnd safe entry, known as
Adrigole bay. Back from Its shores a mountainous
elevation Of bare brown rock, gllstenng in the bright
sunlight like the polished hide of huge elephant,
which animal the mountain resembles IN Its outlines,
rises nearly two thousand feet above the level
Concealed from view below by projecting ridges lies
fresh water lake in the side of this adamantine eva
| than, ont Of which flows rushing torrent
- Falling and brawlIpp and sprawI,ny
| And driving and riving and striving,
ike the far famed Falls Of Iodore in descent of
| nearly two hundred feet.
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