ROSS, about 24 m. S.W. of Cork, may be visited from Clonakilty.--See a small Gothic Cathedral; ruins of Abbey, Barracks, and neat Market-house. Miss Plumptre describes the surrounding scenery as extremely pretty. See curious caves in the rocks by sea side. At Castlefreke good marine scenery. Castlehaven has ruins of several Castles, and remains of Spanish entrenchments in Elizabeth's time. At Dunmanway see some romantic scenery, with a curious natural wall of rocks. Glandore Bay is a most picturesque scene resembling an inland lake. At Kilmacabra see Lough Drine with Danish entrenchment on hill to the E. The lough is supposed by the peasantry to have the miraculous property of shifting all its islands on some holy day every year. At Miros are some curious rocks and caverns; see also Mount Gabriel with most extensive prospect, with a deep lough on its summit. YOUGHALL, about 24 m. E. of Cork,--is noticeable as the spot where the first potatoe was planted in Ireland. Some good scenery around it; and cheerful in the summer as a watering place. See the Ch. a large Gothic structure with six Gothic arches on each side of the nave; partly suffered to decay, particularly the chancel, where there is a very fine east window of the purest Gothic. Here are several ancient monuments. The mineralogist will be gratified by visiting Clay Castle, about 1 m. S.W. from the town; a bold hill, on the strata of loose sandy clay, pieces of which falling upon the beach become a hard firm grit like freestone. MINERALS. Coal is to be met with in the barony of Duhallow; in the N.W. also iron. In Muskerry in the W. are curious red and white slaty pebbles, and in other parts are limestone and loam with symptoms of copper. But on the whole this district, though interesting to the geologist, is very deficient in mineralogy. BOTANY. _Althæa officinalis_, Marshmallow:--at Cable Island. _Aquilegia vulgaris_, Columbine:--plains near Kilbullane. _Arbutus Teredo_, Strawberry Tree:--on the mountains. _Asplenium Adianthum nigrum_, Common Black Maiden-hair:--on the mountains. _Asplenium Trichomanes_, English Black Maiden-hair:--on rocky soils. _Cardamine bellidifolia_, Daisy-leaved Ladies'-smock:--on old walls near Cork. _Cistus Helianthemum_, Dwarf Cistus or Little Sun-flower:--on on limestone hills near Castlemore, and in the barony of Muskerry. _Cochlearia danica_, Danish Scurvy-grass:--on Cape Clear and elsewhere. _Cochlearia officinalis_, Common or Garden Scurvy-grass:--on rocks near the sea. _Convallaria majalis_, May Sally:--on the river Bandon. _Dianthus Caryophyllus β_, Common Pink:--on the walls of an old castle in the market-place at Kinsale. _Euphorbia hyberna_, Knotty-rooted Spurge:--in the mountains. _Helleborus viridis_, Wild Black Hellebore:--in a meadow near Doneraile. _Hypericum Ascyron_ (Lin.), Bruges-rose:--near Ballymaloe in the barony of Imokilly.