evel can be seen; every spot is tossed about in a variety of hill
and dale. In the middle of the lawn is one of the greatest natural
curiosities in the kingdom: an immense arbutus tree, unfortunately blown
down, but yet vegetating. One branch, which parts from the body near the
ground, and afterwards into many large branches, is six feet two inches
in circumference. The General buried part of the stem as it laid, and it
is from several branches throwing out fine young shoots: it is a most
venerable remnant. Killarney, the region of the arbutus, boasts of no
such tree as this.

July 16. Rode in the morning to Drum; a large extent of mountains and
wood on the General's estate. It is a very noble scenery; a vast rocky
glen; one side bare rocks to an immense height, hanging in a thousand
whimsical yet frightful forms, with vast fragments tumbled from them, and
lying in romantic confusion; the other a fine mountain side covered with
shrubby wood. This wild pass leads to the bottom of an amphitheatre of
mountain, which exhibits a very noble scenery. To the right is an
immense sweep of mountain completely wooded; taken as a single object it
is a most magnificent one, but its forms are picturesque in the highest
degree; great projections of hill, with glens behind all wooded, have a
noble effect. Every feature of the whole view is great, and unites to
form a scene of natural magnificence. From hence a riding is cut through
the hanging wood, which rises to a central spot, where the General has
cleared away the rubbish from under the wood, and made a beautiful waving
lawn with many oaks and hollies scattered about it: here he has built a
cottage, a pretty, whimsical oval room, from the windows of which are
three views, one of distant rich lands opening to the sea, one upon a
great mountain, and a third upon a part of the lawn. It is well placed,
and forms upon the whole a most agreeable retreat.

July 17. Took my leave of General Cunninghame, and went through the glen
of the downs in my way to Powerscourt. The glen is a pass between two
vast ridges of mountains covered with wood, which have a very noble
effect. The vale is no wider than to admit the road, a small gurgling
river almost by its side, and narrow slips of rocky and shrubby ground
which part them. In the front all escape seems denied by an immense
conical mountain, which rises out of the glen and seems to fill it up.
The scenery is of a most magnificent