Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-21

grand and impressive encircling series Of
prospects which can be found, whatever
your travel or toll, within Great Britain.
Away to the north across the steelY CLEAN
OF Dingle Bay, score Of miles or more,
Sieve Mish, with Its peaks of Cshirconree
and Baurtregaum, nearly 5000 feet In
height stands between your sight and the
magnificent mouth Of the Shannon.
Further still to the northwest the lesser
peaks of Mullaghareirk rise to the edge of
the green plateaus of Limerick. 70 the.
east, first over billowy mounds, and then
following the dark, sinuous thread of rail-
way through village and hamlet, the fertile
fields Of Cork stretch to and beyond Mallow,
and thence on and on to the horizon rim,
where can almost be seen the lone CASTLE
ruin of Kilcolman where Spencer lived his
eerie dream-life, weaving together the
chaste and charming imageries of the
'Faerie Queene." To the southwest you
can see over the peaks of all mountains, in
Vulnerable castles and cabins, wales and
streams, and like a brown Gipsy in its
groves, dauntless old Blarney Castle,
with the shining spires, as if deli
cate flashes of fame, Of fair Cork City be-
hind. Sweeping around to the south there
lies beneath your vision, and between you
and the sea, vast and varied physical out
lines, where hide countless glens and val
leys-the lone and sacred silences of Gou-
gane-Barra;s the untrodden fastnesses of
Caha mountains; the wondrous walls of
Bantry: the wierd wilds of that marvellous
trough glen," Glengariff; and across the
CLEAN and CLINT Of Kenmare Bay, the
heights of Sieve Mickish, with the solemn
headlands beyond. Beneath you to the
west is the grandest of Great Britain's natur-
al parks, whose scenic wonders are not yet
half known, the lake-dotted, forest-spread
wilderness of Iveragh; beyond to the south
west, and out at sea, the lone but mighty
Skelligs; and, finally, north of these, far
Valencia, from which the news of the old
world is flashed by cable to the new.
CHARMING SCENERY.
From this splendid height of Carrantuo-
hill not only can the dauntless tourist COM
mand prospect of scenery, certainly the
most varied and perhaps the grandest and
most beautiful in the world, the diameter of
whose area radius will exceed 100 miles, bat
from single point of observation can almost
at glance comprehend the chief charms of
the chiefest scenic charm in Ireland. The
greatest men of the world have for two
centuries visited Killarney. If one will
take the trouble to investigate the matter,
it will be found that those most famous in
literature have been drawn here. Each has
left some gem of description as tribute to
Killarney and their own captivity. Even
Thackery, unable to find words adequate in
expression of his impressions, bursts forth
into delicious bit of literary integrity and
SAYS: ''The fact is and 1 don't care to own
it, they are too handsomel'' One writer is
overwhelmed BY the grandeur of the envi-
roning mountains. Another finds Killar-
L.. Ill l.
of the little lakes. Another feels the spell
only through the lakes themselves. Another
has never seen such mountain climbing,
water-kissed forests, and these were his
theme. Another glows and flows about the
wondrous arbutus and ferns. Another like
Croker. dwells on the startling echoes of
her glens and the still more startling
legends of the peasantry, beggars and
guides. While another is touched by the
solemn shadows of Muckross, or melted to
tenderness, as with Moore, who sang in
fadeless verse:
"Sweet Innisfallen, long shall dwell
In memory's dream that sunny smile,
Which DER thee on that evening fell
When first saw thy fairy isle"
But Killarney will ever remain shrine
for lovers of the beautiful because each soul
coming here is, even though imperceptibly
and imperfectly, impressed with all of, and
more than, these. And that fact as an en-
tirety is scarcely fully revealed until one
stands here upon Carrantuohill's loftiest
peak. For it is then that the just and equa-
BILE distribution Of natures highest and
most impressive elements of beauty in this
wonder-spot of Erin come SO clearly and
wholly to the sight of eye and mind.
HE LOVINGLY BUILDED.
The spectator at Killarney will find wood.
water and mountain in every conceivable
form and aspect, so diversified, and in such
unlimited change, that it is impossible for
the eye to rest from any point upon any spot
where some combination of the three does
not return a picture of beauty or grandeur
Entirely aside from historic or religious as
sociation of thought, and with every ruin,
shrine or legend, so quickening to the i'm
agination, expunged, for this simple physical
fact alone, the Killarney region will ever re-
main the most beautiful spot in the world.
Forest is here in trackless waste where
the red deer hide; in grove, in copse;
in matted masses hanging from in
accessible heights. Shrubbery is here in
such luxuriance that its richness and pro-
fusion cannot be elsewhere equaled outside
the tropics. Water is here in such glints
and gleanings as no pen or brush can ade-
quately depict; in lakes that startle one as if
in sudden awakening consciousness Of sur
passing dream; in torrents solemn and
mighty; in cascades flmy as streams oflace;
in rivers tortuous and Wild songful and
murmurous; in pools deep, dark and silent.
Mountains are here with soft and billowy
ascents; with crags and cliffs majestic, where
eagles nest and scream; with peaks above
the clouds. All these in all forms are Kill
larney's SO tenderly, so sweetly and so sub
timely intermingled, that the reverent heart,
full of its surprising loveliness, can no less
than throb with loftiest exaltation and e1-
claim: "Here stood the great Artifcer, and
lovingly builded and blessedl''
EDGAR L. WAKEMAN.