lake in the United Kingdom. BALLYMENA (33 miles), a town with a very considerable linen trade. COLERAINE (61} miles). (Hotel: Bridge End.) Population, 6,000. An old town, renowned for the excellence of its linen fabrics, called "Coleraines," and its salmon fisheries.

The direct line of railway continues on to Londonderry, which is reached in an hour and a half from Coleraine, and in four hours from Belfast. A branch line goes off to Port Rush, the station nearest the Giant's Causeway.

LONDONDERRY, (Hotels: Jury's, Imperial). Population in 1876, 20,250.

This city is beautifully situated on a hill more than 100 ft. above the Foyle. Its chief objects of interest are the old walls and the Cathedral. These walls were built in 1610, and with their six gates are to a great extent preserved.

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The Cathedral, on an eminence overlooking the town, has been recently restored. It was erected in 1633. It is a beautiful edifice in the perpendicular style. splendid view may be had from the tower. Corporation Hall, the Court House, and the new bridge, are well worth notice.

The city is memorable from its famous siege in 1689, when the army of King James besieged the city for 105 days, and tried in vain by assaults and famine to subdue its brave Protestant defenders.

PORT RUSH, 68 miles, (Hotel: **ANTRIMARMS). Asmall seaport, considered as the port of Coleraine, is situated on a peninsula of basalt, opposite the picturesque rocks called the "Skerries." It is much frequented for sea-bathing. Cars are taken here for the Causeway, distant 7 miles. On the route be

tween Port Rush and Dunluce are the WHITE ROCKS. In a distance of 2 miles there are 27 caverns or gullies worn out by the action of the waves on the limestone rock. The most interesting is called the "Priest's Hole." DUNLUCE CASTLE (3 miles), one of the finest ruins to be seen anywhere. "It stands about 100 ft. above the sea on a perpendicular and insulated rock, the entire surface of which is so completely occupied by the edifice that the external walls are in continuation with the perpendicular sides of the rock." The

rock is united to the mainland by a wall only 18 inches in width. The origin of this castle is unknown; it is attributed to De Courcey, Earl of Ulster. BUSHMILLS (2 miles), (Hotel : Imperial), so called from the river Bush, on which it is situated. THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY (2 miles); (**ANTRIM ARMS). At the hotel may be had a tariff of prices for guides, boats, &c. The landlord at the Antrim Arms at Port Rush will recommend a good guide, and it would be well to follow his advice. There is no lack of intelligent guides. The best course to pursue in seeing the wonders of this remarkable region is, if the day be not stormy, to visit the caves and then to land upon and see the Causeway. The first of these caves is PORTCOON, into which the boat may be rowed for a considerable distance. Its length is 350 ft., its height, 45 ft. It may be entered also by land, but the effect is not so good. Dunkerry cave can only be entered by water. Its entrance resembles a Gothic arch. It is 660 ft. long, and its height is 60 ft. above high-water mark. After leaving the caves the visitor is rowed directly to and landed upon the Causeway.

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surfaces, but articulated into each other like ball and socket. The length of these particular stones from joint to joint is various; generally, they are from 12 to 24 inches long, and near the bottom they are longer than toward the top. Their size and diameter differ also; in general they are from 15 to 20 inches in diameter. The cliffs, at a great distance from the causeway, especially in the bay to the eastward, exhibit at many places the same kind of columns, figured and

and shorter ones, like the strings of a harp. The GIANT'S AMPHITHEATRE, "the most beautiful work of the kind, that in Rome not excepted." The GIANT'S CHIMNEY TOrs, three isolated pillars standing upon a promontory, the tallest about 45 ft. in height. The Priest and his Flock, The Nursing child, The King and his Nobles, will all be pointed out by the guides. Pleaskin Head, "the finest of all promontories," rises to a height of 370 ft. Beyond are the Giant's Pulpit, a pre

faded, science has dissipated that astonishment which the scrupulous and accurate formation of columnar basalt once excited, and suspension-bridges have become universally adopted.

The swinging bridge from the Antrim coast to the rocky islet, consists of two parallel ropes secured to rings let into the rock on each side of the yawning chasm, with crossing cords, on which, as on the rounds of a ladder, planks are loosely laid. There is undoubtedly little attention here paid to security; the whole structure swings with every breeze, the planks are not even tied to the cross cords, and a rail or handguide would rather increase the danger to a passenger, from the peril of reaction. Those who are employed in the conduct of the fishery pass rapidly and safely over, much aided in the accomplishment by the stability which a basket-load of salmon on the back contributes. When the season closes, the clerk retires from his island hut, having previously removed his temporary bridge, and from this period the rock is inaccessible, save-at even a greater risk than before-an approach to its dangerous coast by water. BALLYCASTLE (Hotel: Antrim Arms), a dull town of about 2000 inhabitants. Near it are the ruins of Bonamargy Abbey, erected in the fourteenth century. Near CUSHENDUN, a pretty villages with neat residences, the road crosses the Glendum river by a lofty and handsome viaduct supported by three arches. GLENARM, a village of about 1000 inhabitants. The castle is the seat of the Earls of Antrim. It is opposite the town, and is surrounded by a fine park. A some. what enthusiastic writer says of the castle and its vicinity, "Near the village and castle all traces of

wilderness vanish entirely, and a charming park and pretty flower garden confer additional beauties on the scene. The castle itself is built in a fine old Gothic style, and furnished with modern taste and elegance. Four hundred deer graze around it, and six hundred old ancestral trees overshadow its

grounds with their spreading boughs; and all this smiling and peaceful beauty sheltered between the wild rocks which form the little glen, with a view opening on old Ocean rolling its stormy whitecrested waves beyoud, forms perhaps the most wonderful site in all the world for a stately baronial mansion." Twelve miles from Glenarm, by an excellent road, is LARNE (Hotel: King's Arms), a beautifully situated town, now the terminus of the railway from Carrickfergus and Belfast. There are four trains daily from Larne to Belfast. 14 miles from Larne we reach

CARRICKFERGUS (Hotel: Victoria), a town of about 4000 inhabitants, with very few attractions. The chief objects of interest are the castle and the church; the former, built by the De Courceys, is still habitable. The church contains some fine monuments of the Chichesters. King William III. landed here in 1689, before the battle of the Boyne.

ROUTE 8.

DUBLIN TO KILKENNY.

81 miles; first class, 15s.; second, 11s. 4d.; third, 6s. 8d.

HE route from Dublin is the same as that to Cork as far as Kildare (see Route 4). At Kildare (30 miles from Dublin) we take