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280 to the bottom of that extraordinary pass. I will do my best to describe its appearance, from the approach to it from Garvimore. I will take my station upon a narrow shelf, cut on the side of a mountain, rising high on the right, of grey stone, partially covered with very coarse verdure. To the left is a precipice of no great depth, or danger, down to a small rough space of heath, bog, and rushes; scattered over with stones, and reaching to the stream coming from the base of Corryarraick: on the other side of that stream, rise mountains of a dark hue, bare, and wildly jumbled together. In front stands the broad side of Corryarraick, sweeping almost perpendicularly to the right and left; every where rough and bare, except patches of rushes and coarse grass, growing about the springs. At the summit a zig-zag road begins, about twelve feet broad; and from one angle of the zig-zag to another, about thrice the length of a carriage and pair of horses; the guide poles continuing to point out the track, should the road be by any means rendered invisible or obscured.

On each side the zig-zag are innumerable springs and marshy places, with thickly scattered loose stones, and fragments of rocks, brought