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From the summit of the mountain there is a level road, until W0 3‘l’l”0”Ch
the town of Ballycastle. It passes over a baircn heath, in ii'liicli,ll1C“c “re
numerous fissures, crossed by strong bridges-each bridge l)caring'a name,
and generally also the name of the engineer by whoin it was erected. ‘H010
and there we meet a shephcrd’s hut, but the whole district is almost without
inhabitants, the land being exclusively occupied by flocks of sheep. ill”
descent into Ballycastle is very rapid; leaving to the right, about three miles,
two objects which imperativcly demand a visit-sTor Head and )liii'l0USl‘ Bay
-to which we shall presently conduct the reader. Ballycastle is a g00d
town, with a good inn; and the tourist will do well to rest here awhile; Pm‘
ceeding hence to the Causeway, and examine, both by sea and land, ll“?
grandest object along this wonderful coast-The Promontory of 1‘1i‘l“l‘:“;lt'
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I ,i,‘,,,:m sf’ >“l$..‘- 2.11’ I e ie remains 0 the ancient a 3 ’ f,
‘ ’ Margy; founded, it is said, for m0“l‘5 0
the Franciscan order in 1509, by S0m‘“‘1c
M‘Doniiel, commonly called Sorley Bil)’: or
Yellow Sorley. From that period to the PTO‘
sent, it has been used as the burial-place Of
the noble and famoiis family of the M‘D0““C13
of Antriin.""' The situation of this ruin is lllghly
picturesque; the ocean is open before it; 0“
the east is the extensive vale of Carey, and on i
the south is the fine mountain of Knockladc-
Ballycastlc consists of two parts, “PP” and
lower; the Ioiver is usually termed the Q“‘‘y7
: p .7 -- and the two are joined by an avenue of fin“
trees. The town was almost cntircl)’ the
"“"“"' creation of one energetic gentleman; Hugh
Boyd, Esq., to whom Alexander, Earl of Antrim, granted, in 1736, a lease
waterfall at Estocliar-bridge, but they differ in no respect from the “uqua] shrew Notllinn can be more
sweet and diversitied than the views seen from the road which passes from Cu5'he]'1d'lll into tlie vale of Glen‘
dun’ and over “'8 m‘‘““t‘‘l‘‘ W B““Y(‘=‘5lle: the interest of Cushentlun that sleeps so securely at the brink of
its “lIlilslesrl;!(Z)lt):, is chiefly iiith its cues, winch, to the geologist, are inwduame; the ,.;ve,- Dun passes into the .ea
‘ “ llere repose the ashes of Hand
made so extraordinary a final?‘
Al. first Marquis of Antrim, who took so active 3 part. ’"‘d- 31‘ limes‘
Restoration, in 1660, he went
in the troubles of Charles I. and at the period of the Commomwnlth. On the
to Englmd l” P“? 158 respects at court - but the kin" refused to see him, 1"“!
here he remained until lllirch lG61 ‘it h lib ‘it :1 n hall. ““d sent’
to Ireland, to undergo such punishment as the gm.em:)r n:ight u:i:ke2t e :af:er1:1';‘U:‘d ‘gnquiry into the
charges made against. him he was dismissed by :11, Lords Jumccs, with have to so to [-jnoglund; when Lo
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