Seven Lectures on the United Kingdom for use in India: Reissued for use in the United KingdomMackinder, Halford John
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Seven Lectures on the United Kingdom for use in India: Reissued for use in the United Kingdom
Mackinder, Halford John
Great Britain
Now let us away to the far South-West of Ireland. There, hidden
in the midst of high mountains, are the Lakes of Killarney. This
is one of the most beautiful spots in all Britain, for the lakes
are sheltered, and though close to the ocean are wooded along
their shores. Here is a view at Killarney, across the lakes to the
mountains which neighbour them. Hanging round the heights are the
mists and clouds of the Atlantic. All this district is bathed in
moisture, and green the year round, but hardly ever free from cloud.
It is the combination of mountain, lake, wood, cloud, and sunshine
which gives an ever changing, always flickering, beauty to this part
of the ocean edge. Here is another scene at Killarney. The boat and
the men are waiting to take visitors down the stream.
[Sidenote: 43. In Connemara.]
[Sidenote: 44. Connemara--Lough Scene.]
Northward of Killarney, upon the edge of Ireland, is Connemara, a
region of wild, naked rock scenery, so wet and poor that over large
districts bog moss clings to the surface instead of grass. We see
here the torrents of rain water descending from the mist-bathed
mountains. This is another scene in the same country of Connemara
with a rare clump of trees, making still more evident the general
nakedness of the landscape. The beauty of it depends on the shapes of
the hills, and on the alternation of land and water.
[Sidenote: 45. Highland Scene--A Stag.]
[Sidenote: 46. Highland Scene--A Golden Eagle.]
And now we come to the grandest, most lonely scenery in the Western
Highlands of Scotland. Here on the heathery and grassy moors, which
spread for miles and miles over the mountain heights, are still to be
found some of the wild animals of Britain, which elsewhere have been
driven from the land by civilisation. This is a stag of the large
species known as the Red Deer. You see here the colouring of the
moors and the atmospheric effects which you must put for yourselves
into the black and white photographs that follow. But first we have
another colour photograph, a golden eagle beside her nest on the
crags.
[Sidenote: 47. Sligachan, Skye.]
[Sidenote: 48. Glen Sligachan, Skye.]
[Sidenote: 49. Loch Coruisk, Skye.]
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