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responding to the cardinal points, and above each a key-stone, ornamented with a human head. A projecting course, resembling a block cornice, is carried along the top, and supports a conical cap, or roof, formed by gradually diminishing courses, terminated by a bell-shaped cap-stone. The inside is smooth, and exactly finished, having projecting rests, either meant to support floors, or occasioned by the gradual decrease in the thickness of the walls as they ascend.

Devinish occupies an area of seventy acres, of rich and productive soil. It sustains black cattle, whose approach is almost facilitated by the intervention of the waters through which they are compelled to swim, and sheep, carried over in flatbottomed boats. A herdsman and his family constitute the population of this romantic abode, and the little cultivation their necessities require varies the tame character of the surface. Devinish had long been the property of the Rynd family, but by the union of the heiress of their house with the grandfather of Sir Edward Denny, of Kerry, it passed to the present owner, to whom it produces a rent of one hundred and ten pounds per annum.

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THE road from Enniskillen and Devinish island to BALLYSHANNON skirts the southern shore of Lough Erne, and by ascending the many hills which rise on the left, the traveller easily commands views of the lake, which more than repay him for his trouble. Ballyshannon is beautifully situated at the outlet of the river Erne into Donegal Bay, the debouchure into the tide-inlet being accomplished over a ledge of rocks sixteen or eighteen feet above the level of the tide. It forms altogether a very beautiful bit of scenery. There is little to arrest the traveller or the antiquarian between this and Sligo, the road crossing the heads of the various small bays which indent the coast, and showing on one side constant views of the sea, and, on the other, the towering mountains of Ben-bulben, Benwesky and their brethren.

Sligo lies low, and appears at first to be situated upon a very broad and deep river, the dam across the Garwogue, (which runs through the town from Loch Gill,) preserving its waters from the reflux of the tide. Sligo has a remarkably fine neighbourhood of hills, which though wild are very picturesque; and dirty as the town