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GLEN ARM.
coast is at present so exceedingly precarious, that itdoes not
yield a sufficient return to the poor seaman who has the
hardihood to prosecute it. This would be remedied to a
certain extent by the erection of a pier in this harbour,
where the little skiff might fly for protection when the sea
assumed one of those angry perturbations which are so
sudden and so frequent en the Antrim coast. At present,
for seven months and upwards, the fisherman’s boat is
(lrawn up upon the beach, and the. inverted hull: secured
by a quantity of large stones, until the return of the
milder season; for ashe has no place of retreat in the
hurricane, and he dares not approach the shore while it
continues, he is obliged to abandon this vocation alto-
gether, and seek another and a less perilous mode of
subsistence. p l ‘
, Small craft can reach the village of Glenarm, whence
salt, lime-stone, I and flints, are exported in great quanti-
ties. Excellent flints are found along the pebbly strand of
the bay, nearthe salt works, hut those in the lime-stone.
are generally preferred. Red-ochre, which is to he hatl
at a place called “ The Bull's Eye,” in the Glenar'rnriver,
might also be ‘made an article of exportation, and it is
’not improbable, that, with a diligent investigation, coals
may be discovered in the vicinity. There is an adit of
an ancient level, evidently intended for draining oil‘ the
water from a coal-pit, discoverable in the Trap, near the
village; and there is a belief amongst the -villagers of the
existence of coal in the little Deer-park.
Upon the south side of the hay is the little Deer-park,
the most attractive curiosity at Glenarm to the tourist. It
consists of a natural platform of considerable extent, so
large as to be employed for the purposes of a park,
the substratum of which is lllTlQeStOllC. This base is
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