With that view we skirted the picturesque mountains that surround Dunmanway.

These mountains present features to which the eye of one living in the inland country is little accustomed.

The mountains of the midland and eastern counties are generally enormous clumps with little inequality of surface, and covered over with heath and weeds.

Here, on the contrary, the mountains seemed to be carved out into the most fantastic shapes, covered with white granite stones, whose reflections in the watery surface gave the scene an appearance of singular beauty.

However strange it may appear, we lingered over these picturesque scenes in intense delight; the more so because there seemed no limit to our journey, and no definite aim to which our efforts led.