With these we came upon mud cottages, such as I had not seen in Donegal, being the huts provided for their labourers by the tenant-farmers, whose comfortable stone-houses and out-buildings stood well back under the long ranges of the hills.
We passed through much striking scenery, perhaps the finest point being a magnificent Gap in the hills, guarded and defined by three colossal headlands, one of them a vast long rampart, the other two gigantic counterscarps.

The immediate approach to Letterkenny, too, from the west is charming, passing in full view of the extensive and beautiful park and the large mansion of Colonel Stewart of the Guards, and skirting the well-kept estate of Mr.Boyd, the owner of the ivy-clad cottages which so took my fancy the other day.
In the Ulster settlement under King James I.a patent for Letterkenny was issued to one of the Crawfords.

Then, as the records tell us, "Sir George Marburie dwelt there, and there were forty houses all inhabited by British tenants.

A great market town, and standeth well for the King's service." Again we found a fair going on--this time attended by swarms of peddlers vending old clothes and all sorts of small wares, bread-cartmen, and tea-vendors.

These latter aver that it is easier to sell tea in the "congested" districts at 4s.6d.than at 2s.6d.The people have no test of its quality but its price! The town was gay with soldiers and police--whose advent had created such a demand for bread and meat, a man told us, that all the butchers and bakers in Letterkenny and Dunfanaghy were at their wits' ends to meet it.