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(Z41: a private residence, and erected with a good deal of taste,‘
E15? ' i i There "is a yarn market held here once a week, ‘and eight“
- fairs in the year. Many improvements are introducing,"
, under‘ the direction and at the expense. of ' a very"
energetic ‘and spirited proprietor, F. Turnly, ‘Esq.
.1 D whose name appears intimately connected with every.
614- 5 beneficial change lately effected about this village," and,
It indeed, in several other parts of the country, through
T which our tourist passes. Opposite thevinn, warm baths A
gv 7 have been‘ erected, which are extremely convenient for
553 3; ‘ persons from the interior of Antrim, who visit this place
iii: E in the bathing season.’ Amongst the new buildings in
Idlt and near the village, the most extraordinary and con-
AXY: ‘ ‘E W i spicuous is the tall, square, tapering turret, at the cross:
T, I ways, erected by Mr. Turnly, as a place of confinement
for idlers"and rioters: 'I‘his‘priso'n, although only a few‘
feet in diameter,‘ is A amply capacious for theoffenders of
this neighbourhood. i i > ‘ v
The road in front‘ of the inn leads ‘towards the sea-
:3“ Mai shore, and also to the church of‘ Lade. .t Not manyyards'
from the inn ‘is an agreeable patchigof‘ verdant mead,’
ff; ‘ washed by the sea, aiidiopposite to the central part of the
3‘ small bay; Here we are told that Drill or Dallas, a Danish ‘
‘:35 ‘T; 0r'Scotch intruder, landed, (luringthe harvest of the year, ‘
when a number of reapers were engaged in this very field,
555 who,’ not being provided with other weapons, despatched
‘ the gigantic invader with their reaping. hooks, and in-‘
' terred him on the shore. Others assert, that Dallas was
33 fl a Scotch pirate, who was slain on this spot by the illus- "
trious Ossian; but the decision of the controversy does
not appear to be of very great importance. i
‘ In this neighbourhood the poems of Ossian are per-
fectly well known, and from tradition totally, which has:
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