The _Hazel_, one of Thor's trees, is generally used as a divining-rod to discover mines and lost treasures supposed to be hidden underground. The person who seeks for the treasure takes a hazel rod with an end in each hand, and then slowly walks over the ground, keeping the rod in a horizontal position before him; when passing over the spot it bends down like a bow in the middle, towards the place as if it were magnetized, as the needle turns to the pole. Beyond a doubt the hazel is known to miners, and to those who look for minerals underground, as the divining-rod. [Sidenote: FAREWELL INISHMORE.] And now, bringing our legends to a close, we shall bid farewell to these lonely and lovely isles, and in bidding them farewell we shall merely ask how it is that the travelling English public travel not into these islands, where frosts never wither, where snows never rest? And so farewell to Inishmore, the island-home of St. Enda--Inishmore--once "Notissima famâ Insula dives opum, _Hiberniæ_ dum regna manebant Nunc tantum sinus, et statio mala fida carinis." FOOTNOTES: [20] Hos. iv. 13. [21] Gen. xxi. 33. [22] 1 Chron. x. 12. [23] Deut. xvi. 21. [24] 2 Kings xxiii. 5, 6. [25] Hos. xiv. 9. [26] 1 Kings v. 10, 11. [27] Numbers of books treat of the superstitious belief in fairies. The Irish fancy that they are the "fallen angels" mentioned in Jude 6, and that on the day of judgment they will be released from their hapless condition (2 Peter ii. 4). The belief in fairies is universal in Mahomedan countries.--_Vide_ "Lalla-Rookh," "Paradise and the Peri." [28] 2 Kings xvii. 6. APPENDIX A. "Adorned with honours on their native shore, Silent they sleep and dream of wars no more." POPE'S _Iliad_. [Sidenote: O'BRIENS LORDS OF ARAN.]