Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-27

"Well, we'll, Pat, what's the name O that mountinga"
 '.Carrantuohill's the same"
 'sSome sort er-story-er-legion about it, I s'poses"
 ''Diyii doubt that, sor. But wan stud there at first. St. Patrick was csrin' for two hills. So one fine mornin' another stud be- side it."
 Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!" ex- claimed the American, writing the same down on business card as big as his hand, while his travelling companion writhed again. "And that further onep'
 'Torc, sor. Tore bekase that's 8 wild boar, an yell find lem there this blissed min ute with tusks on lem the length O yer arm, sor."
 "Goodness gracious But that is wonder ful. Nav, did you hear thata And that mounting over there, Pata'
 "Mangarton, sor."
 s'Jess so. Kinder Dutch, hsin't it. S'pose some Dutehman settled there long while ago, eh? Wonderful how these things stick to plaees!"
 He had me there, and I should have bro. ken down entirely if milford, with loud guffaw in which the undergraduates joined had not ascended the car, and with lily SUD- pressed shorts and indignation, ordered the driver to proceed. This took my little friend from me on the run; but after his able bod jed wife had dragged him from the ground to his seat on the long-car, and held him in it by one arm, he turned and gesticulatine enthusiastically with the other and the field glasses, yelled from the rapidly disappearing vehicle: Come to my hotel, Pat. Don't know the name. Best one, anyhow. Want to know more about this wonderful kentry. Make it all right. Darned if I don'tI"
 I should recommend to all tourists who intend visiting Killarney to come to this re- zion as did the kind little man and his calm, big wife-by railway from Cork to Bantry and Glengariff, and thence by long car through Kenmare, over one of the finest roads in Great Britain. Fer over ten miles of this highway, from the point where 1 sat and exchanged Irish information for Eng fish silver, the entire three lakes are for g time wholly in view; all their grandest scen- cry is thus enjoyed; and much of that which is entrancing in detail is possible of idle and pleasant inspection. This is true of no oth' CT accessible and leisurely travelled way in the vicinity of Killarney. It is not even possible from the peak of Carrantuohill; as this is too remote from much that is exqui- sitely beautiful requiring closer study.
 Following my own vagarous fancy, I re- mained over night in a neat little cabin above tine Upper Lake, and when morning came secured boat and man for leisurely service the whole day long. This gave me the loveliest morning scene in colors l ever DeQ6lO. NOUQlQR COulu D6 mOT6 beautiful than the fleeting dyes upon the marvellous spot as the suns rays gradually stole from the east through the valley be- tween Tore and Mapgarton mountains, trans forming the peak of Carrantuohill into 6 cone of furnished silver; flooding, to itf north, the heights of the Reeks, the Toomies aud Purple mountain with blended layers oi gold, then purple, then lavender, and beio" a misty green; and spreading, by reflection, upon the Upper Lake itself sheen of scar let on it's western disc, of purple in it's cen- ter, and of dark grape like blue, tinged with hint of vermillion, at its eastern edge un- derneath the lowering, shadowy heights above. If painter should lay this scene and these colors upon canvas he would be hooted at as "color mad" But they were there just as have placed them.
 It is not half hours leisurely row from end to end of Upper Lake Killarney. Yet half month could be we'll expended enjoy ing it's beauties and grandeur. Completely distinct from Middle and Lower Lakes ir the character of it's scenery, the widest grandeur surrounds it, and yet the most ex. quisite and tender beauties are nestled in its bosom and along its winsome shores. The twelve islands within it are, almost without exception, nests of verdure. On every sidt mountains pierce the clouds. Between thes' and the shores there may be seen every man ner of conformation of land, rock, running SSTGAu1 tsGo SOIISuluk lOIest, CIchIdbio Dy 4o aginable or securable by human sight. Out cannot tire of it. Passing from Upper Lake into Long Range, which carries it's waters te the north into it's two companion lakes, tho world famous Eagles nest rises almost per pendicularly seventeen hundred feet. 1ts base is spread with the richest foliage; but it's grand facades and iutting cliffs are bare Here the eagle breeds and wheeling screams above these glens of unreliable beauty; and here is undoubtedly the most wonderful echo in the world. Buglers accompany tour ists to wake the silvery notes, Crocker re- cords six perfect answers; and my own boat. mans vocal call, curiosity ir itself, came back to us in surprising repetitions and won drous sweetness.
 Long Range stream, whose two miles oi beauties are alone worth trip to Killarney divides, sending one channel to the right un' derneath "Old Weir Bridge"-a quaint struc ture and dreamful spot-into Tore or Middle Lake, and the other spreading along to th' waters of the Lower Lake. We shot th' tiny rapids at Old Weir Bridge and passed into Tore Lake. Though almost as dainty ir sizs as the Upper Lake, the scenes opening to view from its calm surface are softenee from wild grandeur to noble and equabls sp1endor, through the lesser height of itf eastern screens, the distance from the tower ing Reeks and the massive blendings of su. perb forests; while every one of it's innumer. able tiny bays and coves offers ravishine combinations of form and color in the blend. ing of rock and foliage and the indescribable variety of Hchens, mosses, ferns and shrubs that crowd upon and overhang it's banks te the very waters edge.
 The chief characteristic of the Lower Lake is simple and tranquil beauty. While undoubtedly as fascinating in this respect as any other sheet Of water in Great Britain nowhere does the element of grandeur enter into it. Its nearest approach is at it's south. ern entrance at Glena. The mountain range extending northwest along the western rim of the lake here reaches closest to the shore shutting in lovingly the bay and glen with { mountain glen of surpassing loveliness
 Around the witching peninsula and sweeping into the southeast is another bay ot tran scendent beauty, above whose shores upon { little knoll, though quite hidden within thu dense forest foliage of the Herbert demesne is Muckross Abbey. Sacred are it's memo ries, enchanting it's surroundings, and incal culable the prose and poetic description which the beautiful old ruin has evoked This is equally true of "sweet Innisfallen' island, nestling like a bird of emerald plu mage within the blue waters midway betweel the eastern and western shores. There ar no such oak and ash trees, hollies and ever greens in all Ireland as upon this enchanted islet Here were written the celebrated "An nals of Innisfalen,n now Bodliean Library and the ruins Of It's once famous aDbey ar' scattered everywhere beneath it's giganti eyergreens and towering shrubs. Eutran cingly beautiful as is Innisfalen, there is threnody of sadness in the murmur of itt
 brooks and the whisperings of it's leaves Of perhaps still greater historic interest 1 Ross island, on the eastern shore of tn
 lake; though it is more properly peninsula sometimes of necessity reached from tn 1 mainland by 8 picturesque bridge. Fron the summit of the grim old castle ruin de l Iightful outlook can be had; but the chic interest in the place lies in the fact that tn 1 once almost impregnable place was the las | in Munster to surrender, and that needlessly in 1652, when five thousand Munster mel laid down their arms because of an ol' prophecy that the place could not be takel until ships of war-an impossible thing should surround it. General Ludlow provi ded boats holding one hundred and twent men each to reeonnoitre by water for a con 1 venient landing place; and upon seeing thes and the suppositious ful6llment of tn prophecy, the besieged incontinently surren 1 dered The Gap of Dunlos, long tortuon l valley threaded by the torrent-like river Lo | which expands into several weird lakes | above all of which tower fierce and forbid | ding crags; sore of water falls and cascades any one of which are superior in beauty t our own famed Minnehaha; countless noun tain ascents; and innumerable wltohlng gien I L -E l,A rlT TA