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| GATEWAY, COL. TORRINGTON'S RESIDENCE, ON THE BOYNE. -The aspect of the country which was the theatre of the Battle of the Boyne, in 1690, has greatly changed since the end of the seventeenth century. Then, both banks of the river were somewhat marshy, sedgy and destitue of timber, so that the operations of the contending armies ere not screened from the respective commanders as they would be to-day, where the lovely banks of the Boyne are dominated by the splendid seats of the aristocracy and clothed richly with groves of stately trees. One of the finest mansions situated on the famous strea in that of Colonel Torrington, the entrance to whose beautiful grounds is shown in the accompanying sketch. It is situated in the county of Louth, on the northern bank of the river, and in the vicinity of the Boyne obelisk, which can be seen rising imposingly above the stone bridge that occupies in the middle ground in the picture. A man driving a horse and cart over the structure seems to be taking the world easily; and the two gentlemen half reclining on the grass in the foreground appear to be going back, in revery, to the day of bloody strife tow hundred and more years ago. Now, musing on these peaceful banks the mind From every land, a warrior band, for Europe owns the looks back in wonder, quarrel. And visions rise of hostile ranks impatient, His hand shall clinch no barren branch who snatchs this keep asunder; day's laurel. |
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