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| VIEW IN QUEENSTOWN, CO. CORK. -The foregoing is a view of one of the principal streets in the Irish Liverpool, and affords a good idea of the nature of the ground on which the city stands, looking down on its magnificent harbor. The buildings in this section of Queenstown are handsome and solid -very much resembling those of American cities, before the "sky-scraping" period, which has come to show that mankind have not yet repudiated the desire to build towers like unto that of Babel. From the eminence in the background of the sketch, a castellated church tower looks proudly down on the structures that have arisen on the terraced streets below. On the right is a public pleasure ground-a favorite breathing spot of the populace. The handsome building in the foreground on the left, with its black veranda, recalls the better portion of the French Quarter at New Orleans. Queenstown, during half a century, has been the sad witness of more than a million partings of its people from Ireland, because it has been a favorite point of embarkation for America. Nothing can be more melancholy than the spectacle of the aged father and mother bidding farewell at the gang plank to the hope and light of the humble household, wreaching their aged heart-strings in the effort to be brave. Even the buoyant Irish nature is not proof against this kind of affliction, and there have been many instances where bitter grief orphaned the young emigrant before the ship that bore him away saw the last glimpse of the Irish shore. |
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