The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-10

simply conjecture what all the remaining
glorious sights might be- Three quarters
Of an hour afterwards. without meeting
with any more startling adventure than
the falling down and thu dragging along
Of one Of our horses, who had sucoumbsd
from fatigue, We arrived ut Killarney and
took quarters at the finest situated hotel
overlooking the great lakes. Ibis was
a temperance hotel, and We noticed vari
Gus signs with reference to abstinence
from Intoxicating LIQUORS, posted around !;
also among tho notices We read this one:
Vehicles leave the Hotel on Sunday for
the several rlacss CT worship aud visitors
Hishing to attend may use Them free OF
charge; vehicles are not hired on Sum
day." 1t Was at the village OF Killarney
that we heard Protestant preacher hold
ing forth on the principles OF the Higher
Law, just at nightfall to congregation
Of what seemed to be three tourists. This
was evidently one of the hours appointed
In the Cathedral for worship; but minus
the tourists we wondered how the service
would DO carried on.
The next day our party, aooompan led
by two Englishiuep, Msssrs. Padfield and
schubotham, left the hotel at eight o clock
for the tour of the lakes. Aftsr q coach
ride Of eleven miles we were Joined by
"rsal Irish gentleman" and the whole
company walked i've miles through the
fascinating Gap of Dunloe. Three
young men from the hotel Joined us later
on ponies, for the ESQ of which we had
been constantly importuned. "And for
the leddies, for the leddies.'' they would
say to the gentlemen when they refused
to accept them for themselves. The
country was alive with people, and II all
made mp gay scene. At Kate Kearney's
cnttsge. the old woman Of the mountain,
the third Kats Kearney in direct descent
came out TO offer mountain dew, which
with goatsmilk 10 the drink of the noun
taius. This proved to be, they said. most
ly whisky or ''potheen," as the Irish
call 1t
Several old women ran behind the car
riage before we arrived tere, thrusting
upon us stout wooden stockings knit by
themselves of black lambs wool; since
the thermometer was up among the nine
ties, 1t seem ed homogeneous, and we com.
promised by buying the picture OF
Colleen Bawn. meaning beautiful
maiden, but which proved to be the like
ness Of the old woman herself.
The walk was made agreeable at inter-
walls by mountainous who distracted all
our small coin in exchange for beautiful
echoes, which they brought out from
mountain glades.
After passing through the Gap Of Dun
loe, which we had seen at distance the
day before, the sombre panorama OF tho
Black Valley was presented and the
Imagination was held captive ny the
gloomy picture, Coomydhuv (o'Dufi's
Valley, the picture 10 called. Here
threatening rocks hang above us, from
which trees of fantastic shapes leap forth,
mako the wonderful scene a thing never
to be forgotten. The rapid Los forms
itself at this point into five branches,
which make up. at their mouths, the
Cummeen Lakes. This little glen is
hemmed in by vast masses of mountains,
dark. deep and high. whose rugged sides
are SCARED by the bed OF former descend
ing streams. This O'Dutf's Valley
spreads out into the broad plain of the
Carran- Tual, where at los further side it
receives the Upper Killarney Lake.
Here the large boat awaited us, rowed
by four stslwart Irishmen who brought
our lunches from the hotel and made the
sail gay by their Irish jokes which.
though new to us. were no doubt part o;
their stock In trade for many year.
Other boats were going up the Lake to
meet passengers from other different
hotels and when we passed those guided
by the most serious and levsl.hs aded look
Ing oarsmen, our joker. no doubt the
facetious Irishman of the lake., would
call out "Look here Pat, aren't yez
ashamed of yereelr going..to meet yer folks
when ye're overcome with liquor" and
to another, 81 am surprised to see yez
out to-day Pat, when ysz only just got
married yesterday"-and SO on, some
thing to each new sober looking crew.
1t Is only possible to mention q few
from the myriads of Kiilarney's charm.
1sSA AA"AaS obAAPs AEOin bHc lth6 lu6
mountains with changing contour and
endlefs variety of foliage and diversified
tints which change In autumn.into deeper
shades, Ponder the wild grandeur of the
scenes. as we sailed along amongst its
Islands, most effectise. There
are twelve Of these ravishing Islands ON
the Upper Lake, and on the lower thirty.
In the Long Range, river two miles In
length, we passed huge ledge which
ressmbled the inverted hulk OF n ship
which they call the "Man-of- War;" The
Eagles nest is now not far off where
the eagles still shelter their young; and
right here near the meeting OF the waters
is the promontory called -Coleman's Eye.
On one side tho divided waters take you
through the middle or Tore Lake. over
some rapids into Tough Leane or Long
Lake. Thackeray in his Irish sketch book
says that when it was agreed that Toro
Lake was mors beautiful than Tough
Laane, when they came back he said