On the top of Drumdowny Hill, the extremity of an extensive range, there is a dry stone wall inclosing a space of about 300 acres, appropriated for quarrying a species of breccia, or pudding stone, which is cut into mill-stones. BOTANY. _Borago officinalis_, Burrage:--on the ruins of Grandison Castle. _Erica cinerea_, Female Heath; with white flowers:--on moist sides of hills. _Humulus Lupulus_, or Hops:--indigenous evidently in many parts of the county. _Iris Pseud-acorus_, Common Flags or Saggons:--in wet grounds. _Lichen_, Common Mosses; with all the varieties of _caninus_, _physodes_, _farinaceus_, &c.:--in many places. _Lonicera_ var. _fol. quercinis_, Oak-leaved Honey-Suckle:--in the S.E. district, in meadows. _Lycopodium alpinum_, Alpine Moss:--on the hills on western side of the Nore. _Lycopodium clavatum_, Club Moss:--near Inistiogue. _Lycopodium Selago_, Ladies' Shamrock:--in moist grounds on the banks of the Nore. _Rumex Acetosa_, Sorrel:--in moist meadows. _Rumex acutus_, Sharp Dock:--on clayey soils in the north. _Verbena officinalis_, Vervain:--in pastures, and on road sides. KING'S COUNTY. This is one of the small Irish inland counties, long and narrow, bordering in some degree upon the Shannon, and traversed by the canal intended to unite the Irish Channel with that river.--It is flat and often boggy, especially in that district called the Bog of Allen; with the exception of the range of hills that separate it from the Queen's County, called the Sliebh-bloom mountains. Bounded N. by East and West Meath; E. by Kildare and Queen's County; S. by Tipperary; and W. by Galway and the River Shannon.