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 1580.] THE DESMOND REBELLION-. 57$ obedience, and their submission and pardon might be a useful example. The work was done. The farthest corners of Kerry had been searched and swept clean, and the English could now return at their leisure. On the 26th of June Clancarty entertained them at ' the Palace ' ' a name/ says Fenton, * very unfit for so beggarly a building, not answerable to a mean farmer's house in England/ * On the 27th/ says Sir Nicholas White, 'we marched by the famous Lough Leyne. 1 The Lough is full of salmon, and hath in it forty islands. In one of them is an abbey, in another a parish church, in another a castle, out of which there came to us a fair lady, the rejected wife of Lord Fitzmaurice. The lake is -in circuit twenty miles, having a fair plain of one side, and fair woods and high mountains of the other.' 2 It was midsummer, and even the soldiers were struck with the singular loveliness of the scene on which they gazed. ' A fairer land/ one of them said, ' the sun did never shine upon pity to see it lying waste in the hands of traitors.' Yet it was by those traitors that the woods, whose beauty they so admired, had been planted and fostered. Irish hands, unaided by English art or English wealth, had built Muckross and Inisfallen and Aghadoe, and had raised the castles on whose walls the modern poet watched the splendour of the sunset. From Killarney the army passed through Grlenflesk 1 Killarney. The days of tourists were not yet, and it is a pity that White did not explain in what sense he called it 'famous.' Diary of Kir N. White.