River:

Bay Lodge is the highest part of these mountains, called Carneal-apt-aura, near Broughshane.

The Acre River rises in the neighbouring mountains, and affords some good trout. There is also a Fishery, salmon-fishery where it empties itself into the sea, the mother fish spawning in the river. It is worthy of remark, that the fry leave the river in April, scarcely two ounces in weight, the large salmon waiting for them, and in the month of June they begin to return, always from the southward, in shoals, weighing from four to eight pounds each. They are remarked as differing from the Bann salmon in being longer in proportion, and not so well shaped. The other fish of this bay consist of cod, lythe,. (in figure and shape like cod,) turbot, different kinds of flat fish, mullet, mackrel, glashen, and herrings, caught both by draft and drift nets; the only shellfish are lobsters and crabs, which are taken in great numbers. The greatest difficulty in being supplied with fish at all times, is want of bait, which very often cannot be got-however, when the weather permits, the nets answer the purpose. At particular times sand-ells are taken in great quantities; they make excellent bait.

Game.

Trees.

The mountains are mostly covered with heath, and supply moor game in the season. The black game have been brought from Scotland, but will not live in Ireland. There are some partridge, and, in winter, woodcocks and snipe.-Oak and fir trees are found lying in different directions, some feet deep in the turf bogs on the mountains; and it is in memory when Glenariff was covered with trees, so that it was a saying, that a man could cross the glen upon

them now there is nothing but underwood, and Trees. even that is disappearing fast; a few old trees near the houses still remain. Ash, larch, fir, sycamore, and alder, seem to grow best; apple and small fruit trees do well when planted in sheltered gardens.

Glenariff, one of the seven great glens, is flat in Glens. the centre. The river moves in a serpentine manner through its whole extent: and, being nearly as low as the sea half way up the glen, whenever a high tide meets a flood, it overflows a great part of the grounds. The glen comes to a point where the roads to Ballymena from each side meet, about three miles from the sea; its base, formed by the sandy beach, extending about a mile. The rise on each side of the glen forms towards the rocks a circular appearance of rising ground; two-thirds of it are cultivated; shells and sea-gravel are found under the present surface. As far as relates to the glens in general, including those both in the parishes of Ardclinis and Laid, it may be stated, that one-half of Glenariff is in the parish of Ardelinis, and the other in that of Laid.Glen Ballyemen is in the parish of Laid, as is also Glenanne, Glencorp and Glendun, besides others of inferior note,

The number of acres in Ardclinis, as reported by Contents, the Down Survey and Antrim Report, amounted to about 9500; the one-half may be allowed as fit for pasturage and arable, leaving one-half, or 4750 acres, of mountain, one-fourth of which may be useful for sheep. The appearance of the parish of Laid is of hill and dale of large dimensions; the cultivation rises high up the hills, and consists of potatoes, oats,

barley, flax, and rearing small cattle and sheep in the pasturable parts of the mountains.

Boundaries Laid is bounded on the north by the parish of Culfeightrin; on the east by the Irish Channel, or Northern Passage; on the west by the parish of Dunaghy; and on the south by the parish of ArdExtent. clinis. Its extent along the shore may be about six miles, from the inland about five and a quarter, in some places less. From the nature of the lands, and the manner in which they are set, it is impossible to ascertain the exact number of acres; but it may be conjectured that the parish is five and a quarter miles in length by six in breadth, of which, 5714 acres, paying cess, are in cultivation, including meadow and milch cows' grass. Up Glendun, on the opposite side of the river, is a small tract which belongs to the parish of Laid, called the Grange of Ennisfallen, and which pays no tythes, as being held by Bishop's lease; it is now in the possession of the Rev. John Smith. At the head of Glendun is Mountain. Slievenahorra, a mountain whose summit is 1870 feet above the level of the sea. On the top of this mountain there are evident marks of two graves, said to be those of Hugh M Pheilim O'Neill, and of a servant of Hugh O'Neill; one on the Dunluce side of the mearing, between it and Lower Glenarm, Tradition. and the other on the Glenarm side. The tradition is, that a great battle was fought on this mountain between the M'Quillans and the M'Donnells.

Grange.

Fishery.

Salmon is caught in this parish at the mouth of all the rivers; and as it forms one side of Red Bay, a bay with good anchorage, and safe in all winds but

an easterly one, all the points mentioned in Ard clinis parish, as to the fisheries, relate to this.

In Laid the land is good, and has a quantity of Soil. meadow in the low grounds. There is a general observation, that though the grounds are sowed earlier by three weeks in the north, or Laid side, than in the south side of Glen Glenariff, the crops come in earlier in the latter. It can only be accounted for by supposing it to be occasioned by the north side being shaded from the sun in the autumn, during the latter part of the day, by the high hill of Lurgethan, which bounds Glenariff to the north,

II. Mines, Minerals, &c.

The coast is covered with white limestone, which Limestone. is easily burned by turf or coal from Ballycastle or Scotland; it is good manure for most lands. In the immediate vicinity of the sea, the use of sea-weed for kelp manure is very common. A considerable quantity of kelp is made along this shore.

In Laid parish are some good quarries of coarse Freestone. freestone, of which are made flags for floors or building. It has been thought that coals could be Fuel. found in this parish, but that they would not defray the expense of mining. Turf is the general fuel, and, when cut in the mountains and well saved, is almost as hard as coal, and produces a very strong and clear fire. White limestone is abundant in most Lime, parts of the parish, and a great quantity is burned when turf is plenty. At Tieve Bouilue, the property of Lord Mark Kerr, a road is making from the main road, to encourage the business, but lime burn

Village.

Roads,

ed with coal, particularly blind coal, is far superior for every use. Some years ago, the father of the present Mr M'Auley of Glenville built kilns, and gave lime to such of his tenants as would be at the trouble of drawing it. The offer was then accepted but by few; now the farmers will lay out from six to eight pounds per acre for it; the increase of rents, with the proportionate demand for provisions, may account for the change.

III. Modern Buildings, &c.

The village of Carnalough can boast of nothing remarkable; it contains two public-houses. It is about 29 miles north of Belfast, and Belfast is in the latitude of 54° 35' 43' N. and longitude 5o 58' 14!! west of London.

The road from Carnalough to Red Bay is very hilly. From the Point, the road lies through limestone rocks that have fallen from the hills upwards of 800 feet high, so that in a winter storm a traveller is exposed to stones from above, the spray of the sea beneath, and the risk of slipping, in some spots of the road, from pressure of the clay under his feet, It is not forty years since this south entrance to the low glens was impassable for any thing but a single horse, and even that with difficulty. The road has gradually been improved, and now numbers of travellers pass on their way to the Giant's Causeway, and greater improvements are making for the convenience of passengers, particularly at the Point of Garron, where there is an almost perpendicular hill of short ascent. Francis Turnly, Esq. who purchased a property in the parish of Ardclinis,