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not easily detected by a stranger On the east of
Brown’s Bay is a rocking stone, or giant’s cradle, which
was said to acquire a rocking, tremnlous motion at
L’ the approach of sinners or malefactors: there were many
14 , of these over the face of the kingdom, but they are now
e f- dislodged in most places, so that the few which remain are
In more interesting curiosities. They were so ingeniously
; V’. poised, that.the slightest impulse was capable of rocking
335 ” ; . a mass which the greatest strength was unable to '
K‘: 3 ., dislodge; nor does thereappear to be any contrivance A
35 .4 M4 I adopted but the circumstance of placing the stone. upon
L‘; its rude‘ pedestal. Until a very late period Island
5;; ' Magee was the residence of witches, and the theatre ’
rf-4 5 “ of sorcery: in 1711 eight females were tried upon this
i extraordinary charge in Carrick-Fergus, and the memory
-V of Fairy Browne is stilla cause of terror in this credulous
33 1 :3; : peninsula. ‘
' About two miles farther, on the eastern ‘coast, and
beyond Portmnck, are the stupendous basaltic’ cliffs,
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:.El;%: ‘.28 ISLAND MAG!-IE.
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Ii ‘"4; 5 3:: the former. Of this island a curious and brief account
4 E if ‘ ' ' -‘r MS ' this count vlil '
i: ll [ :3.) is to be met with in a pin ate . in y, i 1 c 1
::i-‘ E‘: mentions, that in the reign of Elizabeth it wasa complete
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%1 iv’ <17 waste, without any wood, although a fertile soil; and
that the Queen had granted a lease of it to Savage, ag
55$ follower of the Earl of Essex. At this time, says the
MS., it was inhabited by the Illagees, from whom it
‘.53 f ii?‘ derives its name.
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:2: ;;rg;‘.'1 Not far from the landing place stands a druidical
‘if: j cromlech. The covering stone, which rests on three
‘ 3 supporters, is six feet in length, and of a triangular
-5;: shape; its inclination is to the rising sun. There are
two more cromlechs to the south of the peninsula, but
