Four Days in Connemar

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IT. EXPECTATION OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAFFIC. ? SALE OF ENCUM- BERED ESTATES. REFLECTIONS ON FAMINE. IRISH REPARTEE. ? CLIFDEN WORKHOUSE AND CHURCH. ? ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS. IRISH HEATH. THE KILLARIES. MELWREA. SCENERY OF BEANABRACK. I Was long enough in Galway to see among a motley crowd round the car,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IT. EXPECTATION OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAFFIC. ? SALE OF ENCUM- BERED ESTATES. REFLECTIONS ON FAMINE. IRISH REPARTEE. ? CLIFDEN WORKHOUSE AND CHURCH. ? ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS. IRISH HEATH. THE KILLARIES. MELWREA. SCENERY OF BEANABRACK. I Was long enough in Galway to see among a motley crowd round the car, one woman with a decidedly Spanish cast of countenance, and admire the proportions and workmanship of the new hotel to be opened when the double line of rail is completed, showing how large and how confident are the expectations of trans- Atlantic traffic. For a few miles out of Galway the sides of the road are well-planted, and the seatsseem well-cared for. Loughcorrib occupied the middle distance, bordered by a petrsean tract, on which the stones seem to have been hailed down. A purchaser of some lots of the O'Neil estate was on the car, and in a glow of anticipated enjoyment of a visit to his bargain, but he gradually lost much of his vivacity as the gardens showed the increasing ravages of the dread disease. The prospect of income from his new tenantry seemed to dissolve into a sombre vision of subscriptions, rates, rates in aid, and other out-goings. The thought of his fisheries, a green potato-bed, and a vague idea of supplying Billingsgate seemed to revive him. I had not the malice to show his hopes to be forlorn, by referring to the proceedings in Galway Bay, whereby it has been put to the proof that the Irish will not be made to fish, except in troubled waters. A traveller on an Irish car, with luggage piled up in the middle, has but a one-sided view of the country. I was on the favoured side, looking inland. The country on the left hand is well described by Mr. Inglis, except that at present there are neither herds nor herdsmen. Five or six ...