Evening star., 1906-04-08

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/ friends. and he has many invitations to
| visit owners Of estates along the route he
Will walk-and he intends to walk every
| foot of the way, except when he has to
| take to the water.
To the Blarney Castle.
From Queenstown he will walk to Cork.
| Blarney Castle, then the southern coast
road to the lakes of Killarney via Bandon,
| Clonakilty, Skibbereen, Bantry bay Glen
| garriffe and Kenmare. He Will spend
| few days around the lakes of Killarney the
most attractive and more abundant in ma
| tural beauties than any other portion of
| the Emerald Island.
Tralee will be the next point, then Linn
| erick, where his boyhood fishhooks were
made. From Limerick he will go to Tip
| perary, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford,
| Wicklow and Dublin, where a day or two
will be spent in visiting the many places
| of interest, including the great linen
works. From Dublin he is to walk over to
the west shore of the island passing
through Athlone to Galway where he will
stop in the humble homes of the fisher
men, then walk along the southwestern
coast Of Connamara. filed with enchant-
ing islands. Passing up the western coast.
he will tramp through Mayo Sligo, Ennis
kllen, Armagh, Lisburn and Belfast.
There a few days will be spent in seeing
the interesting city and surrounding his
t ?c places.
Antrim. Larne, Glenarm, Ballycastlc,
Portrush, Giants Causeway. Coleraine to
| Londonderry, on the Lough Foyle. From
there he Will make short excursions to
Ballymooney and other places. From
Londonderry he will sail up the Firth OF
Clyde seventy miles to Ardrossan Scot
land, then make a tramp of forty-eight
miles to Glasgow, and from there to Ayr,
the birthplace of Robert Burns. The route
will then be across country to Edin-
burgh, along which are many places OF
interest, among them being the town of
1yeIn n N1.rIfD n N
seen, the tramp will be continued to Car
Isle, England, the first town of impor-
tance across the border. Carlisle is sew
enty-fiye miles from Edinburgh and 437
miles from London The route will be
through Penrith, Lancaster, Leeds. and
then to the ancestral home in Hudders-
field.
Birthplace of Shakespeare.
From there Capt. Oldroyd will go to
Manchester, Sheffield Derby, Birmingham.
KeniIworth, bennington, Warwick and
Stratford-on-Avon, the birth and burial
place of Shakespeare. Next the road will
lead through Woodstock and the Duke or
Marlboroughs magnificent estate of 27OO
acres filled with fiocks of sheep and herds
of deer. to Oxford. London will be the end
of his walk.
Numerous excursions will be made from
the main line, diverging in various direc-
tions as the interest demands. At Dunn
fries is a monument over the grave of
Burns in st. MichaePs Church. Keswick
was the residence of the poet Southey,
Ambleside the residence of the poet Words
worth; York, with its cathedral. is an in
teresting place; Chatsworth the magnt-
cent residence of the Duke of Devonshire,
with a park of coo acres, in which there
are more than 5000 deer. New Abbey, the
residence of Byron is but a few miles from
the route. This abbey once IN the
possession of Lord Byron. Several weeks
will be spent in London, then, after Mr..
Oldroyd celebrates his sixty-fourth birth
day IN Liverpool, on the 31st OF July, he
will sail the Friesand August 1 for
home, reaching here in about ten days.
Capt. Oldroyd claims that walking Is good
medicine. He had constructed for himself
theory that to every portion Of the day
given to intellectual labor should cores
pond an equal number of hours spent in
walking