of the most delightful drives that the most vivid imagination could form an idea of. The scenery of the Avoca, despite of succeeding objects, has filled my mind ever since, and I may, with truth, repeat,

That the last rays of feeling and life must depart,
Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.'

"Learning that the direct road from Rathdrum to Wicklow was not very interesting, we preferred retracing our steps along the Avonmore, and, setting out early in the morning, along the new road that so much delighted us, we once more saluted the genius of Glendaloch, whose ruins presented a different aspect from that sombre melancholy in which they were involved when we parted from them two evenings before. The lofty round tower reflected the rays of a cheerful morning sun, and the dark sides of Lugduff and the Broccagh smiled in the bright tints and gladness of the newborn day. We breakfasted at Round-wood, paid our bill and arrears, which were very reasonable, and proceeded to fish the Vartrey, a stream at the distance of two or three fields, in front of our cabaret. Our vehicle and baggage we sent under conduct of our host's grandson, a careful and honest lad, to await us at the further extremity of the Devil's Glen, one of the principle curiosities of the kind in the county. I cannot quit my inn at Round-wood, without bearing my approving testimony to the zealous and hearty attentions which we received from its simple and honest inmates. James Murphy, the proprietor, is a sturdy old man,

married to his second wife, who is, also, an old woman of the last age; Murphy's honesty, I believe to be as sterling as the buttons on his coat, which are all made of mint shillings, of the coinage of George the second.

"The course of the Vartrey lies, for about three miles from Round-wood, over a rocky and gravelly bed, through open and easy banks, until its waters are precipitated about 100 feet, with great force and fury, down the face of a steep and rocky hill into the Devil's Glen, forming a picturesque and irregular cascade. The trout in this stream are larger, and of better colour and quality, than those of the lakes or the Avonmore. The river being very sinuous, the angler experiences the frequent inconvenience of apparently shifting breezes, being as often obliged to cast up as down the stream; this, however, is no disadvantage in point of sport to him who has acquired an easy and skilful command of his line; the wind, if not in the wrong point, being up the water and against the hand, keeps the fly stiff on the wing, invites the rise and assists the striking. Before we reached the head of the glen, the water being in good order, we took between us two and thirty trout, three of which approached small mackrel size, very few of the rest equalling that of a small herring. Arriving at the fall, a glance at the glen satisfied us that angling through it would be a work of difficulty, on account of the close wood on the banks of the stream, besides that the beauty of the scene promised to be such as would sufficiently engage our attention; we therefore tied up our rods, and having attained, by a winding path, the bottom of

THE DEVIL'S GLEN,

we entered on a scene of uncommon wildness and beauty, and which amply repaid the curiosity that led us to it. The glen is about an English mile in length, and narrow; an excellent road has been perfected along the side of the stream, by the proprietor of that side of the glen, Mr. Tottenham, of Ballycorry. The mountains on both sides rise high and almost perpendicular, and exhibit, as do the mountains at Luggela, the opposites of bare sterility and rich plantation; the one clothed to the very top in the various and beautiful tints of the oak, fir, larch, birch, holly, &c., broken by masses of grey rock, here and there protruding boldly through the surrounding foliage. In a spot tastefully chosen, Mr. Tottenham has erected a rustic temple, admirably adapted for contemplation, and equally well suited to the gayer purposes of rural entertainment. From the temple a walk is carried, with great judgment, along the upper part of the wood, through rocks of an enormous size and the most fantastic forms. This walk opens to a view of the vale of Wicklow, which is well worthy of attention. A part of this wood suffered much immediately after the re bellion of 1798, to which sad period there is but too much reference, by objects and circumstances, through. out this county. It formed the retreat of some of the dispersed insurgents, whom it was found necessary to burn out, and the black and scorched stumps of the trees and underwood exhibit to this day a memorial of

the event. The opposite mountain is but slightly sprinkled with a few trees, and on the beetling crags of rock may be seen the hardy and agile goat cropping his adventurous food, and imparting animation to the scene. The river Vartrey, that precipitates its waters into the glen at its head, flows through it in a very picturesque manner, forcing its course over and between large masses and beds of rock, and forming a variety of pools, eddies, and streams: after a heavy fall of rain, it becomes a roaring, impetuous, and sombre torrent, fretting between the opposing rocks, and speckling its dark and turgid waters with floating patches of white and yellow foam. The extremity of the glen opens upon arude amphitheatre, sprinkled with brushwood, through which the stream, relieved from its vexed passage, winds its more gentle and unobstructed way. On an eminence, at the opposite side, stands the castellated residence of Mr. Synge, which, by its bold and imposing effect, contributes much to the general beauty of the scene."

CHAP. X.

And let those that play your clowns, speak no more

than is set down for them."

SHAKESPEARE.

THIS histrionic injunction of the great dramatic poet equally applies to those who take upon them, through the medium of the press, to record the sentiments and opinions of others; and that they should not, by a sort of rectifying process, neutralize the original savour of those opinions, and convert them into their own. In this paper, Mr. GREENDRAKE will be found to mingle, with his topographical descriptions, philosophical, moral, and political observations, to the detail of which we felt it our duty to be faithful, but for which we by no means consider ourselves responsible. If there are yet in the church any "great huntsmen before the Lord;" or coxcombs, or profligates, profaning and shaming the gown and cassock, we avow that we know them not; if the labours of pious tractitions are futile; if Irish Testaments are "Roman