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’ ” ' GLiE.NAARIF‘F. 49
The eastern ‘end of the glen is washedlby. the sea, and
;the shore is formedgofa deepbody of,.f1ne.sand, which
greatly intercepts the line of. road- . Near the -,entrance
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tolerably;shelteredwith plantations; and, indeed, this is
.much:required in thisvery dreary region ;, for.in,the
spring and. autumn thepwinds blow" down the glen with
,.sucl1.extreme acuteness,.,that it requires the hardy,con-
stitution and frame of a mountaineer to withstand its
penetrating chill. , ‘ . , , l I;
In‘the‘centre of the glen lies the Ballymena road,
distant about twelve miles, whichalso leads to the water,-
fall called.Isnaleara, about’onem’ile, and a.:half ‘distant.
In rainy weather the dykeson either. side of the glen,
in front of the lofty basaltic mountains,,become sud-
- denlysupplied twith foaming, torrents, which rush down
the hill with considerable fury, but just as quickly dis.-
appear, again upon the cessation of the ‘showers. The
onlynever-fading cascade Glenariff ,has to boast, is
Isnaleara, on the river Glenariti, whichwaters, the glen,
and ultimately falls into the "sea, at Naireamh, near the
caves of Red Bay, thurough the 1ittle'village.of VVaterfoot.
The prospect, toithe ,west,is terminated by the,lofty.
conical summit of ,C‘ruach-a-Crue ; ,while,that to the north
is limited by the extraordinary mountain of Lurgeidan,
not unlike the frustum; of, an enormous, cone of considerable
altitude, but whose baseiis disproportionately,narrow.
,On the summits of each are observed thick basaltic
masses, resting, at, considerable ‘elevations,’ on strata of
chalk ;. inthe former mountain the inferior beds are con-
cealed by grassygslopes, while in the latter the red sand-
stone is exposedgin several points‘-adjacent-to its central
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