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not only to form one, but feveral entertaining profpefls. From this eminence a furvey may be taken of the greateft part of this beautiful lake ; and likewife of that llu- pcndous amphitheatre of mountains which are ranged along the op- pofite fhore. Towards the fouth- ealt, flands the above mentioned mountain, called Mangerton, whofe feet the lake wafties, and whofe fummit is generally loft in the clouds, it being, from the above recited experiment, juftly eftcemed one of the highelt mountains in Ireland. More towards the center lake, is an high mole, called Turk, whofe fides, down to the verge of the water, are beautifully cloathed with groves, of various kinds of trees. One part of this hill flopes away like a promontory, terminat- ing in the lake, forming one fide of a canal, which is a paflage into the upper lake; as doth the point of another mountain called Glenha, the other fide of this itrait, which is adorned alfo with foreft trees. As a fine contrafc to this verdure, at the back of thefe mountains ftand others, Ihaped into pyramids, being only naked rocks of a vail height. The grandeur and magnihcence of thefe mountains, not only en- tertain and furprize the fpediator, but he muft be alfo agreeably amufed in contemplating the in- finite variety of beautiful colour- ing they afford. For, in one part may be feen the gayell verdure, blended with fcarlet fruit and fnowy blofibms, well known pro- perties of the arbutus; and in other places, the moft elcgait va- riety of brown and yellow tints, caufed by other kinds of trees and fhrubs, appears: all thefe are in- termixed with rock work; and to

foften the whole, a deep, fmooth, and noble bafon of water, extends itfelf beneath this fccnery. But to give the reader an adequate idea of this place, would require the pencil of fome excellent painter, rather than the pen of any profe writer. To the weft of Glcnna, ftands the lofty pike called Tomilh, variegated half way to its top, with a waving foreft; and down whofe fides, efpecially after rains, run very confiderablecatarafts into the great lake. There are many other hills ftill running more weft, as far as the eye can trace for many miles; the neareft and moft furprifing for their loftinefs, are the Recks al- ready mentioned, whofe tops re- femble fo many pinnacles or rather fpires loft in the clouds. The water is light and pure, and not- withftanding the great variety of minerals which furround this lake, it doth not feem to be impregnated with any of them. The ancient verfes of Ninius, who wrote in the ninth century, and which Mr, O'Flaherty, in his Ogygia, alfo cites, make mention of them.

Mamonia Jiagjiujji, Lochhnius undiaue Zonis

^atuor amhitur : prior eji ex arc, fecunda

Plumbea, de rlgido coujlatio teriia ferro:

^arta renidenti palUfcit linea Jl an- no.

As for copper, ^t\v mines in Europe have produced fuch quan- tity of ore, as that work lately difccvered, near Mucrufs; having afforded, in the fpace of a year after its working, three hundred feventy five tons of ore, which produces from an ounce of the general fample, five penny weight,

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