Show THROUGH WEST IRELAND A country un for grand and sm sIngly beautiful scenery some two and a half miles from let ter frack is a pictures picturesque quo bridge crossing in the river digross Din Dan ross which flows below through bendin branches of trees hero here the country opens out S and from the brid bridge bride e is caught haugli the first view of the pass of kylemore Ky lemore so surprisingly singly beautiful beautia ul that its beauty in must be seen and felt it can not be described A valley wide and level and flooded with sun sunshine shine to the left a tall mountain rises sheer out of a calm lake at its base the sides of this mountain ire are thickly wooded halt half way up the other half bare and glistening with a hundred streamlets stream lets that flow from their source above standing 21 out of tile the road contrastan contrasting sharply with the dark green of the pines is a castle built of white stone and a little further down the banks of the lake rises the he spire of a beautiful memorial chapel built by the owner of the place in memory of his wife on the right of the road in crescent shaped sweep the diamond mounta inand and others of the twelve Pins Jitt their heads their bare craggy sides beautified by tit an ethereal blue bine mist like a soft vail thrown over yet in no way abidin hilling thern them and so does docs tile the valley wind and twist that hat ill all these mountains cecin to move and shifts shift now in now noty out the one that a few minutes ago ago 0 was in front now peeps over the necks of two others then the contrasts of color jig light it ind shade baffle d crp tion tile the blue hei heights lits the dark wood from which call ailor or big wood the place takes its name the white castle and church tho the lake black with shadow in parts sparkling like diamonds where it catches the light above and around and penetrating e every tiling thing the vivid gold of the suri sunshine shine all made an entrancing world that once seen and felt will bo be loved forever here too ire are the lovely e gardens garden of 1 castle and through it the woods wild flowers and heath the white mediterranean heath among them and ferns to delight all who are arc happy enough to have time to linger but I 1 think few who conic come here lacre will care much to look at the artificial gardens and hot houses they are arc almost out of keeping keepin CY with such grand nature and the people of the country naver never tire of repeating barrin the castles and gardens addens ar dens every eastily thing here is as bod god made it its all nature nothing artificial in our country of all the woods that once shaded and made part of the wealth of connaught this of Xylem ore is the only one left in this part of the country it is one of the peculiarities of the scenery throughout the western irish high highlands lands that the absence of trees is not felt as if it were a loss or a as it if it marred tile the perfection of the landscape se 1 pe it is with surprise ono one suddenly remembers that with the exception of a fuchsia hedge or a few straggling tv el shrubs or bushes loav along M the roadside no trees have been seen for miles and miles but they were not inis missed sed cor providence journal |