acrofs this beautiful river near Killaloe, which ftops all navigation further up. The Liffy or Anna Liffey rifes from the mountains. near the Seven Churches in the county of Wicklow, and making a circling courfe through that county, runs through the city of Dublin, where it forms a fpacious harbour and afterwards falls into the bay of Dublin. The Boyne is a much more confiderable river than the Liffy, it rifes near Clanbulloge in the King's county and falls into the fea at Drogheda. The Barrow, the Neor and the Suir arife out of a moun tain called Slieu Bloom in the barony of Tenehinch and Queen's county, which take different courses and meet at the haven of Wàterford where they run into the fea. The company of undertakers of the Grand Canal are now proceeding in their defign of cutting a communication with the rivers Barrow and Boyne, which will be of national utility. The Black-water, antiently called Neamb and Abhanmore, ie. the great river, and fometimes the Broad Water, rifes out of the mountains of Slieu Logher in the county of Kerry, from whence it takes a foutherly direction and an eastward by Mallow and Fermoy, and from Lifmore to Cappoquin veffels of confiderable burthen may fail up, as it is about 12 feet deep at low water, and fmaller veffels can go confiderably farther: At Cappoquin it again takes a foutherly courfe and falls into the fea at Youghall. And And there are feveral other rivers, ift. one Lee, a river fo called in the county of Cork, which rifes out of a lake in Muskerry about 8 miles weft of that city and running eaft about 26 miles, furrounds feveral Islands on which part of Cork is built and then terminates in the fea; in many maps this river is marked by the name of Lough-Allin, and others Lough-Lua, it is called alfo Lagi and in latin Livius. 3 Bandon River rifes about 8 miles fouth weft of Cork, and running through a market and poft town, in that county called Bandon Bridge, falls into the fea. There are many other rivers in Ireland, befides the principal ones which are already mentioned, viz. In the county of Rofcommon is the Boyle and the Suck. In the county of Longford is the Camlin and Sharroge. In Westmeath the Inny. In the King's county the two rivers Brofnagh, and the Mage, Deel, Smirlagh, Feale, Gally, Cafhin and Bruck on the Limerick and ! Kerry fide, and the Fergus on the Clare; G 3 with with a confiderable number of smaller ones: but the natives and geographers differ, not only in their importance and utility but in their names. The beautiful appearance that fo many fine rivers give to this kingdom verifies the difcription given of it by Spencer the justly celebrated English Poet, who fays, "Sure it is a moft beautiful and fweet "country (Ireland) as any is under heaven, being ftrowed throughout with many good 66 ly rivers, replenished with all forts of fish "moft abundantly, fprinkled with many "fweet iflands and goodly lakes, like little "inland feas, that will carry even ships upon "their waters, adorned with goodly woods " even fit for building houfes and fhips, fo "commodiously as that if fome princes in the "world had them they would foon hope to "to be lords of all the feas and ere long of "all the world: Alfo full of very good ports "and havens opening upon England as in"viting us to come unto them to see what "excellent commodities that country can "afford: Befides the foil itself moft fertile ; "fit to yeild all kinds of fruit that shall be "committed thereunto. And lastly, the "heavens moft mild and temperate though "fomewhat more moift in the parts towards "the weft." LAKE S. Ireland contains an innumerable numher of lakes or loughs (as they are here called) called), particularly in the provinces of Ulfter and Connaught, more perhaps than in any other country of the fame extent in the world; many of them produce great numbers of large fifh excellent in their respective kinds. Some of the smaller lakes are in the counties of Down, Weftmeath, Donegal and Kerry, but the moft confiderable is Lough-Neagh which communicates itself with five feveral counties, namely, Armagh, Tyrone, Derry, Antrim and Down, and is remarkable for two properties, ift, for curing perfons afflicted with evils, &c. And fecondly, for petrifying wood; the petrifying virtue is owing to certain mineral exhalations common both to the water and to the foil, and doth not seem to refide peculiarly in the water of the Lough, but the most beautiful lake in the whole kingdom is the lake of Killarney, in the county of Kerry. The peculiar beauties of this lake is particularly pointed out in that part of this work which treats of the county of Kerry. FORTS and GARRISONS. Londonderry and Culmore, Corke, Limerick, Kingfale, Duncannon, Ross Castle, Dublin, Charlemont, Galway, Carrickfergus, Maryborough, Athlone, and Castlemain. MOUNTAINS. Βουνς There are three kinds of mountains in Ireland known by the names of the Knock, Slieve and Beinn, the firft fignifying a low hill, the fecond a high craggy mountain, and the third a pinnacle, or mountain ending with a sharp precipice; the English calls them by two names only, Hill and Mountain, in the fame fenfe the Latins ufe Collis and Mons; and the Greeks, and op. Inftances of the firft kind I have feen in that extent of country of about ten miles from Kells in the county of Meath, to Balliborough in the county of Cavan, being one continued chain of hills of small elevation, and the lands adjoining very fruitful; near and Down Patrick many hills of the fame magnitude. Of the fecond kind are the mountains of Carlingford, extending from Dundalk to that place, which though not equal to the Pyrenees between France and Spain, or to the Alps which divide Italy from France and Germany, yet may justly be efteemed among the lofty mountains. There are others which deferve mentioning, viz. those in the county of Wicklow, particularly Sugar Loaf Hill, which is 17 miles from Dublin. In the county of Tyrone the Slieugalen mountains. In the county of Tipperary thofe of Gaulty, and Slieubloom, which extend through the King's and Queen's counties, and is mentioned by the im mortal |