The Newark journal., 1919-12-04

~ NE would not, of course, de- G scribe the Kerry roads as NJ good" There still exist mo-
 torists who visit a district not for the sake of rushing through it as fast as possible-they do not welcome positively bad roads, but, given roads which can be driven over. they are less keen on the goodness of the roads than the goodness of the views seen there from. Such, at all events, was the temperament of our party, says a writer in Country Life. Some one had said: "If you don't do the coast route from Killorglin through Cahirci- veen and Waterville to Parknasilla you will miss the finest thing in Ire land-perhaps in the British Isles;" so we turned aside at this tempting pros pect. And we did not regret our de tour.
 Soon after leaving Killorglfn, where the Caragh lake lies, still and black in it's opening in the hills, we began to have some foretaste of the glories be- fore us. The road mounted into barren wildernesses, and on our right sud denly the vast blue expanse of ning1e bay was eutspread, dream in the sun shine. Grander and grander grew the vistas across that splendid inlet of the Atlantic, wilder and wilder the ranges on our left. At Mountain Stage, where there is q little railway station (though heaven alone knows what the traffic can bel, the scenery was as noble as anything I have witnessed in Great Britain.
 A railway accompanies the road at intervals during this part of the jour ney; but 1t is very unobtrusive rail- way, and appears to boast about a couple of trains per diem in each direction. Its final objective, of course, is the ferry for Valencia island. And 1t is for Valencia that another of our companions was bound-the telegraph line. For Valencia is one of the cable stations; and those ordinary looking wires, nine of them only, which pass from pole to pole along the hedge side, are throbbing, maybe, with messages for New York. X curious thought, in this solitude But Kerry is sophisti- cated, in spots as it were. It contains three cable stations-the Valencia is land one, the one at Ballinskelligs, and the one at Waterville. The result is that you suddenly come on queer cases Of civilization: neat rows of viii las, spick and span gardens. and evidenees-I will not say of wealth, but at any rate of more comfort than is discernible in the thateh-roofed and generally poyerty-stricken farms. cable terminal. you learn with sur prise. employs a hundred or more per sons-skilled persons, too; the kind of persons who have to be paid a sal ary which sounds like untold wealth in this neighborhood.
 Happy Valencia Island.
 It was interesting to come to the Valencia island ferry and look across at little town as neat as some nice French coast resort But Valencia is land, as we found is by way Of being both rich and happy; and even if it's cable station did not bring unusual comforts. the Knight of Kerry is one of those landlords who see to it that their property, and the tenants there on, are seemly to behold. Valencia we all liked; it was, 10 he candid. rather a contrast to the nearby Cahir- eiveen-of which q small pupil had written Gin one Of the schools which we visited) in her essay: "Cahireiyeen is a town with great many houses, and most of them are public houses.
 For all that Cahirciveen is very characteristic and picturesque. Be yond it the road was, alas, pretty rough; army lorries, we were told, had ploughed f up, and there had been no time, as yet, to put it under proper repair. An easy pace was not undesir- able, all the same, for there was plenty to look at. On either hand the hedges, We saw with delight, were fuchsia- q testimony to the climates softness. Everywhere We went in this part of Kerry we were astonished at the vege- tation. Fuchsas grew astonishingly. On Valencia island there is one colos- sal tree of fuehsia, and here also we saw glorious pink geraniums positively smothering cottage wall. Arum lilies flourished like weeds in the poorest gardens Along the bog sides, and right down to the seashore, there were often acres of yellow irises.