But of Froude and the Irish I shall have to speak more at length hereafter.
In Kerry he enjoyed himself, while at the same time he finished his History of England, and his description of the country is enchanting.
"A glance out of the window in the morning showed that I had not overrated the general charm of the situation.

The colours were unlike those of any mountain scenery to which I was accustomed elsewhere.

The temperature is many degrees higher than that of the Scotch highlands.

The Gulf Stream impinges full upon the mouths of its long bays.

Every tide carries the flood of warm water forty miles inland, and the vegetation consequently is rarely or never checked by frost even two thousand feet above the sea-level.