The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-07
BELFAST To BANGOR
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Herald Correspondent
NOTESTAKEN BYTHE wAYslDE
Scenery Not to be "Sneezed At r
Trip in n Jaunting Cara
Discovery.
BELFAST, January 8. 1886.

Correspondence of THE HERALD.
A pleasant trip it is along the Lougi
from Belfast to Bangor 1t is pleasan
if one goes by rail, but much more so tc
indulge in the luxury of a jaunting car
roll merrily along the well-kept road
lined, as it is with green hedges. mostly
of hawthorne; though it is not a rare
occurrence to see beech ard laurel and
even ivy. No finer hedge can be i'm
agined than one composed of Irish
juniper. 1t is so close, so fine and can
be trimmed into almost every conceiva-
BILE shape. Even were the jaunting car
as surly and no more communicative
than the average English railway of
fetal one could not tire of the journey
because of the great variety of prospects
upon which the eye is feasting the
whole time. But the barber-like chit
chat of the driver(which is here known as
"a crack'D excludes the possibility of the
trip becoming in any way monotonous
or tiresome, even undtr circumstances
much less favorable. Like the Scotch
man, there is no subject under heaven
that he will not discuss with you from
the price of the pork market and the
state of the world politically to the
advent of the star of Bethlehem and
the import of new breed of Shanghai
RhinEpnS lInliEo hn ..noIaAAn,o,,
stern and wild" however, his opinions
are built more on the india rubber prin-
ciple, and he manages 10 accommodate
himself and his views to the tastes and
views of his patrons. In view of this
fact, longer ride than this ten miles
might be pleasantly beguiled by the
volatile conversation OF the typical
jaunting car driver.
Going by rail, the journey is made in
forty minutes, making six stops on the
road and passing through section
which, while practically devoid of his
torical interest, is nevertheless remar-
kable for the abundance and variety of
landscapes. Passing through
numerous cuts, all short, one breaks out
from each upon a view of surprising
loneliness. There is a great plentitude
of trees OF different varieties and they
seem to have been SO arranged as to
give effect and to add to the already
great attractiveness of this short line.
AT one time the train is almost on the
shore-the next instant it is buried in
trees; then through cut, up the sides
OF which the grass grows ihickly to-
seiher with wild flowers and wild shrubs
that bear bloom of richest hues; thenit
and runs leisurely through a
we'll titled field, or passes the country
residence of some Irish blood"
through the trees surrounding whose
the placid waters OF the blue
Tough may be seen rejecting back the
warm rays of the summer sun. One
change follows another 10. fas t, res en- =
bling, yet unlike aliSelse, that it is I'M
possible for one to- grow Reary, and
travelled it again,and again
there is always fTeshLess about it that
makes il attractive. The road, too,
Keeps well along the Shore not, sos
close as the track oflthe railway, it lis
tue, but close enough to Keep the ocean
and the Tough within sight the greater
part of the way. There are somesde-
ightfull bits of scenery on the ways the
7ery,choicest spots imaginable:lwi winding !
anesz where the hedges have hgrown1
-ank and wild, with sweet briar and
mingled and the thorne
sometimes assuming tree like proper
ions and meeting over ones head Long
,rass intermingled with ferns and peanl
yine and other creeperS, line the wayy
md ut the end is the old'fashioned stils |
10 little used as to be 'dampcandmo
covered. with the wayside springs near
~ that darts awayfrom under ene's feet
md wanders noiselesSly through the 4
meadow hard by. The old lstile aboye1l
is presumably the. one tel
erred to by Lady Duffern Sheret shell
ang, in the q Irish migrants Lament,1
I'm sitting on the stile Nary where wei
at side by side,' fer the spireoof the I
little church mot that round the cor
ler) can be seen nointiDg it's gilded |
niger, towards the blue of heaven
,azed at on Z bright Nav morning with /
is sweet safroundingsisS uchfa picture I
Is is not, POLITICALLY put. to be sneezed
It. {, a piece of the road between Belfast
md. Hollywood is, unrivalIed lin my
by any thing of the kind Iyeli
cen before. and i certa;nlyrdo not ex-
,ect to- see lit surpassed, The road IL
within stones throw of, the ocean,
ollows the curve OF the shore and pas
es beneath perfect bower, formed by
he interlocking of branches of huge /
eech trees that guard either side of the
DAD for quite a distance. Following
be road on its way to Bangor, il gradu-
lily leaves the shore and grove takes
be place of the ocean. Several springs
reak out and twist their sinuous ways
D the ocean. Beside one of these, and
OF far distant from the highway, IS a
tile OLD octagon house, buried beneath
" fully three or four inches deep, with
matched roof that is now green with
loss and age. The old folk that live
! it, so naturally suited TO the quaint
tile place, the blue smoke losing its
ay through the dense shade of the
oble trees, the empowered roadway
nd the recollection of the superb view
the ocean that one has been so 10th
} leave behind, are such a picture as
ne might be willing cheerfully to accord
lie "cake"-its 'graun, as the County !
own man would say.
Another feature on this road is the
reat number of country residences
lat line the way; and as they are
-arly all occupied by persons otocon-
derable wealth, great taste is displayed
their decoration and very little money
as been spared to make them heaut-
Il. From the shore inland tor over
lle large part of the country on the
ounty Down side of the Tough IS thus
sed; and the broad, graveled roads, /:
lie neat DOrterai lod0na . ~ the tasteful l