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summit is clothed with natural verdure, so that it forms’
a beautiful back-ground to the view of Bally Castle. '
Here, various petrifactions are found, particularly bivalves -
and volutes, of the species which are now extinct.
On the highest point is a large heap of stones, called . x
in the Gaelic tongue, Cairn-an-Truagh, 2'. c.- the Hillock of =
the Three: the existing tradition concerning this cairn,
states, that three Danish princesses,esisters, after various
misfortunes and wanderings, were buried here.‘ In
Seward's Topography of Ireland, there is an accurate
description of an eruption, said to have occurred on this
mountain in 1788, by which many lives were lost, and-
the village of Ballyowen destroyed: Seward does not‘
give his authority for the account, but it canphe traced to’
the Dublin Chronicle for June 7th, 1788, where an extract
from a letter, supposed to have been written in Bally-
castle, minutely specifies the circumstances attendant on
the volcanic eruption. The tourist may rest assured, how-
ever, that the whole narration is fabulous ; for, in the first
instance, Dr. Hamilton published a second edition of
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1: his Letters in 1790, in which there is not the leastnotice
‘Li’ of such an event ;.and the writer of this.volume,made-
; 4. personal inquiry from the neighbouring gentry in 1823,:
I T who remember that such a fable wasonce circulated.'l'
l ‘ The coal-beds.of Fair Head are supposed to extend to
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3". the base of -thismountam ; and if aflame had burst out
if‘: . V, p of the earth here at any time, it. would notrbe likely to
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.5 7th, xmaaune 12:11, 1788. . . -
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