The Scientific Tourist through Ireland: in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesqueWalford, Thomas
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The Scientific Tourist through Ireland: in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque
Walford, Thomas
Ireland -- Description and travel
never yet been ascertained, its sides contracting into a narrow cleft
where no boat can penetrate, but where the waves are heard rolling to
a considerable distance.
GLENARM, 8 m. N. of Larne.--Castle of the Countess of Antrim, still
venerable and magnificent, and on the site of an ancient Abbey: from
the front is seen the Glen or Great Park 13 m. in circuit; extremely
romantic and beautiful; consisting of wood and broken rock, with
several waterfalls and salmon-leaps formed by a large serpentine river
winding through the grounds, whilst its banks are adorned with various
evergreens; myrtles, and the _arbutus_ or strawberry-tree almost
continually in blossom. From the park are fine views of the sea; a
distant prospect of the Abbey in ruins, and the scenery considerably
enriched by the singular appearance of the adjacent mountains, which
are cultivated in corn to their very summits. In its vicinity are many
rude antiquities, supposed to be of Danish origin.
See the GLENS on the borders of Red Bay, with the ruins of Red Castle,
7 m. N. of Glenarm. The scenery around is very romantic, the village
being secluded in a glen, where the limestone shores finely contrast
with the azure ocean. To the northward is the site of Dunmall, a
fortress where, tradition says, all the rent of Ireland was once paid;
but its only memorials are a mound and fosse with the fragments of
a wall. Beyond Garron Point see the curious grotesque rock called
Clough-i-stookin, of chalky whiteness, bearing a striking resemblance
to a female of gigantic stature: near it the ruins of a Castle on a
caverned cliff, the echoes in which are curious: also Torr Point.
On the beach near Glynn the _Anomia Gryphus_ and the _Vertebræ
pentacrinites_ are found in abundance in a blue lime. To the N. of it
stand the lofty and precipitous cliffs of Agnew's Hill, said to be the
loftiest hill in the county. The vicinity of this romantic spot has
been well described by Mr. Wakefield, who, on descending the hill to
Cushendall, beholding on the one hand a cultivated mountain, and on
the other a vale of rich land in a high state of tillage, declares
that upon the whole a more extended and more delightful prospect of
hill and dale intermixed in charming variety, is not often to be
seen. He adds, that from Cushendall to Glenarm, passing Red Bay and
coasting along the ocean, the whole way, the road exhibits the most
romantic and beautiful scenery. On the one hand magnificent and widely
extended views of the ocean, which on this coast rolls its swelling
waves towards the shore with a peculiar and dangerous rapidity; and
on the other, rocky mountains of considerable height, whose hanging
cliffs, as the road extends partly up their sides, seem to threaten
the traveller with destruction; and which in some places are thickly
clothed with woods, through the openings between which the eye is
sometimes surprised with the sight of a village as the road winds
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