Sketches In Erris And Tyrawly

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...world, in countries the most remote from each other. "A friend who has given great attention to the subject, has favoured us with a list of such monuments in different countries, from which it appears that not only are they numerous in Great Britain, Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey, Denmark, Sweden, France, and Germany, but that they have also been found in the Netherlands, Portugal, Malta and Gozo, in Phoenicia, and in India. To which we may also add, that such have also been discovered in Palestine, Persia, Northern Africa, North America, and the Islands of the Indian Archipelago, and of the South Sea. "Now seeing that such monuments are found in countries so far asunder, between which it is impossible to trace, after that dispersion of which the Scriptures speak, any such ancient communications as might have led to their production; and seeing, moreover, that the same Scriptures, as soon as they enter into detailed history--about 1000 years after the Deluge, begin to notice such monuments, not as new things, but as being in well-known and established use, it is morally impossible to account for their origin and wide dispersion but by supposing that the ideas connected with them existed before the confusion of tongues divided the family of man into nations, and, together with the pressure of the wants arising from an increased population, drove them far asunder, bearing with them the notions and practices which had been common to them all. "In this explanation two lines of argument, from facts, terminate; for while, on the one hand, the remarkable agree Chiefly iu Malabar, also near Bombay, where cromlcachs are called umbrella stones. 204 RATHFRAN ABBEY. After leaving the village of Palmerston the road to Ballycastle is very...

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Excerpt from Sketches in Erris and Tyrawly: With a Map and Other Illustration The Volume I now offer to the public is, in a measure, a continuation of my Tour in Connaught, and a fulfilment of an engage ment to my publishers to supply them with a description of Erris. And here I am free to acknowledge, that, being obliged to make my tour at a certain period of the year, I for two successive seasons found the weather so unfavourable as to preclude me from going as far as I proposed, or observing what, imder other circumstances, might have been within my Scope. This statement, if it be an apology for not writing a larger work, may be acceptable enough to those who must read; and it at any rate affords me an opportunity of offering a friendly hint to those who would travel namely, avoid our Far West in the autumn, for then Mackintosh himself cannot provide you with appliances and means to keep you dry and comfortable. No; the month of June is the tourist's time for Connaught, for then is his best and, indeed I may say. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.