Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-04-06


slime and sands toward safety and The
shore. Then To Won" uunrncticed ears
come the faint reyerbeutions of n hoarse
roar; and soon, like a pillar of flame in
the play of tie sunlight, The great mist.
banner of the advancing waters Is flung
from Scotland 10 England almost from
Crfrol TO Silloth. and moves toward vo,
like n lurid cloud above a RUNNING
battle. In few moments more the
brilliancy Of the pbenomenon Is greatest
Preceding the advancing cloud along
the SETTLING front of wall oF water
five miles wide, glitter. foams and Kisses
bank of spnme and spray. zone.
trimmed and interlacel with iinv rain
bows. The roaring of the believing
water-h hosts becomes deafrninr. For m
instant Won are enyeloped by the cloud.
That passed, while YOU thrill with Inc
mystery and awful grandeur of the
spectacle, the great tide-head ia abreast
of you, a true tide-bore. such as breaks
maiestically into Minas and other
cstunries Of the Bay Of Fundv. cvlindri.
cal and straight as an arrow across the
Firth, and from 6 10 feet in hcight.
which sweeps past with a below and
Shrek like that of a hundred thousand
coast for horns bowling in unison: while
close in its wake is hillocky. tempest-
Gus mass Of waves brilliantly gorgeous
in titfully-swept prismatic c0lors;-and
the Solway tide is in.
This Is the pictCfe that comes to mo
from Irelani's crarry north. The
eastern shore of wild Tough Swilly Is
succession of ruins. dainty VILLAGES
like Buncrana and Fahan. and Of
pilgrim-haunted shrines. over 10 the
west are wilder shores. huts round
towers, fishers cabins: and here and
there the patched sails of the herring.
fishers smacks lie white against the
background of the headlands and hills.
Here the sweetest herring known TO
man are taken. The brawny herring
fishers Of the north are here in greatest
numbers. They are sodden, hopeless,
hard. But they are brave and as strong
as iron. They have tremendous frames:
are brown as bronze; and form rroup.
ings of startling impressiyeness. They
are simple and poaceable, am told.
But were pirates wanted; were fleets to
be fitted out with men for work giving
one a shudder to contemplate; these sea.
giants would furnish incomparable nm
man, heartless flint, But il they are
flint, their wives are steel.
Above six feet in height, broad and
strong as their burly mates, with legs
corded like mans and bare to the
knees; with arms long, crooked and
tleshless as wood; with fiat, hair breasts
often barred from neck TO the waist and
tanned by salt, sun and wind TO the
color of the notified alder bark; with
wide Jaws, half toothless mouths,
sunken cheeks, eyes bluc.blac and
flashing from deep, yellow sockets and
brows bushy and ragged with bristlinr
hairs; with narrow, creased foreheads.
and great, wide saffron-colorcd ears sci
straight out from behind like dirty
living and wing" sails; and their square
heads crowned by once black hair
faded into snuff.brown like an ilI.kent
animals, which is matted and knotted
upon the shoulders, and frequently to
the waist-and YOU have but the faint.
est picture of this half-anima, who sub
sists upon kclp, dulse, black oat.calie
and haif.raw fish that The buyrrs who
come to the beaches in their carts from
Londonderry. refuse as even nnwortbv
of sale to mendicant and crouchinr
man-heast of the town.
And the children of theseg
They drag out the same horrible lives
help make the British navy. or firm
traitor to the brood Of Lalf.pirates Ne.
hind, becoming the most remorseless of
coast-guard, or mountain noteen HINT
ing officers, And vet how the did hiood
occasionally blossoms throngL this iinit.
less degradation. A DAUGHTER ~ ins,
such an one AS | have nictiIred wos tho
most perfect tyne Of Wild ma eimnie
human beauty | er behcld, Rarc.
legged and bare breasted MS her mother.
brown as a hazel nut, lrnorantlv innn'
cent Of fear; for four c0pber cnins she
rowed me across Lourh Swillv In whore
her fathers work law nnHding Tho
seines like an Amayoniyn mnn.of. 20 III,
man; while | sat speechlcss contemniot.
ing her marvellous beauty and rniesti,
proportions; hating myself becaiisc I
was not altogether an artist and won.
dering. in ali reverence wbv Gnd ~
Gods nineteenth century ciyilization
could not wait upon tho A frican MI,
sions for a little, and reach TO and sucror
such as these.
Standing upon the bune bead,ard
above ancient 81, Ives anolGer rrmarIr.
able picture is yours II is If nne If
the most interesting fisbinr.norts in
Enrope, The bay Itself faces liz NORTH
AT YOUR feet are purplc heather and
waving fcrns narted frtn M c,.,,.t,iina
water bv plisteninp sands n tRo rigLt
and east the green hiIlocks If tho Eaets
crn Shore. Then The broad vaIinty
beach of Portb cooking mr. The Eoreso ar%
DoIninatinr Ibis il t6e grnat beaiIamJ
Of pednoIya. beyond gIeomi"C aT iilsa :
fn1d az roId arc tbn n,s9,,n;Gnas, ny