Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-04
KILLARNEY,s GLORIEs.
Beautiful Scenery fin a Space Little Larger Than Manhattan Island.

Beautiful Scenery fin n Space Little
 Larger Than Manhattan Island.
 tFrom Natures Rsalm-l
 The American who expects to find the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains in Kill larney will be woefully disappointed. The entire area of the beauties of Killarney is hardly more than ten or twelve miles square. It could be ridden round in a day.
 The most wonderful of the many won ders of Killarney is the variety of scenery in so small a compasss. In this respect no other part of the known world can com pare with it. Every possible phase of na- ture, everything she could do with land and water, can be found in Killarney, and found on little spot of earth hardly as large again as Manhattan island
 Mountains, lakes, rivers, rocks, woods, waterfalls, aowery islands, green meadows and glistening strands almost exhaust na- ture's materials for forming the beautiful. But all are found at Killarney.
 Man, who mars nature so often has helped her here, for the castles and abbeys he raised of yore still stand, and their ivy and flower decked ruins, tenanted only by the bat and the bee. put the finishing touch on this earthly Eden, and make it one of the scenic wonders of the world Another wonderful thing about Killarney is the admirable proportion that its scenic features bear to one another. If the mountains were any higher they would be hA lat ha Ice were any bigger they would be too big for the mountains. Even the rivers and waterfalls are in almost exact proportion to the other phases of nature. The monstrous Mississippi or the laundering Niagara would spoil such a miniature paradise, but the hmpid Lsune and o'Sullivan's babbling cascade suit it exactly.
 Killarney is the most perfect effort of nature to bring together without dispro- portion all her choicest charms.
 The wild flower that is the glory of Ire land is the heath. It blossoms only in the autumn. Next in glory to heath comes the furze. Both furze and heath are un- known in this country. They are indigen- ous in the whole of the southwest of Flu rope, but owing to the mildness and mois- ture of the climate of Ireland, they grow and blossom there with luxuriance un- known in any other country
 The heath bears 6 flower of the most delicate purple, and the furZe one of the brightest yellow.
 When great mountain becomes a mighty banquet of purple and gold, & | sight is revealed which surpasses anything | else on earth in floral beauty. Almost ev- | cry mountain about the 'sEden of the | West'' is clothed from base to summit in 6 | vast drapery of heath. Some of the Kill larney mountains are wooded for 6 few hundred feet up their sides, but most of them are entirely covered with heath in- terspersed with furze.
 | When fine autumn occurs tens of thou sands of acres of mountain and moorlsnd | gleam in the sunlight, an ocean of purple heath and golden furze. Not only do the heath and golden furze blossom in the au- tumn, but myriads of other wild flowers appear only at that time of the year or
 blossom most luxuriantly then
 Even white clover, which rarely bios
 soms in this country except in the spring
 or early summer, opens its flowers widest
 and sends out its most fragrant perfume
 in an Irish autumn. The air is heavy
 with the fragrance of flowers; the noun
 tains are musical with the hum of bee
 and every winged thing that loves the SUI
 makes the bright monday full of melody