Thus the mountains have a greenness altogether peculiar, stretches of grass as rich as water-meadows reaching between the crags and precipices to the very summits.

The rock, chiefly old red sandstone, is purple.

The heather, of which there are enormous masses, is in many places waist deep." Yachting and fishing, fishing and yachting, were the staple amusements at Derreen.

Nothing was more characteristic of Froude than his love of the sea and the open air.
Sport, in the proper sense of the term, he also loved.

"I always consider," he said, "that the proudest moment of my life was, when sliding down a shale heap, I got a right and left at woodcocks." For luxurious modes of making big bags with little trouble he never cared at all.