This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 Excerpt: ...RathKb, almost under our feet; the mountains of Argyllshire; S!e. 42 Kotes.. Tnish, Sleivegallen, and Benbraden mount oins; Lough Foyle and Ennishowen, are a few of the most prominent objects. "Bengore is about seven miles west of Ballycastle, and, though generally denominated a headland, it is in reality made up of a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 Excerpt: ...RathKb, almost under our feet; the mountains of Argyllshire; S!e. 42 Kotes.. Tnish, Sleivegallen, and Benbraden mount oins; Lough Foyle and Ennishowen, are a few of the most prominent objects. "Bengore is about seven miles west of Ballycastle, and, though generally denominated a headland, it is in reality made up of a number of small capes and bays, each with its own proper name. These capes form an unrivalled pile of natural architecture, in which all trie neat regularity and elegance of art is united to the.wild magnificence of nature."--Hamilton. Of these capes the most beautiful and perfect is called Pleaslin. In the sixteen different strata of which it is composed, beauty and sublimity are wonderfully blended and harmonized. Its altitude is nearly 400 feet from the sea. It presents a variety of colours, the first 200 feet being adorned with different shades of green, vermilion rock, grey lichens, red ochre, &c. afcove which there is a range of basaltic pillars, surmounted at some distance by another gallery still more magnificent than the former. Near this is Port na Sp ania, so called from a vessel of the "invincible armada," lost here.--See Drummond, from whom this account is abridged.. Page 11--What, beams break Jorth--A brilliancy is frequently emitted from the capes-of Bengore, which the fishers attribute to an enormous diamond, or diamonds, supposed to he bedded in the cliffs. Page IS--Till Odin roje--It is unnecessary to give a detail of the Scandinavian mytho lgy, which is now rendered familiar to the reader by some of. ur best modern poets. Page 1 i.--To Unite the t, emyyts--The restless ghosts of departed persons, supposed by the cients to return to terrify and torprent the living. Page 14.--The shadowy spectre glides t...
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