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| VIEW OF DALKEY, CO. DUBLIN. -The preceding sketch gives a good general view of the very pleasant metropolitan suburb of Dalkey, which has the advantage of ocean and mountain views, rarely found in the immediate neighborhood of great cities. Fortunately for the town, the municipal authorities never granted the right of way to the railroads to run right along the beach, and in this way, Dalkey has escaped the disagreeableness visited by the iron horse on other small and previously prosperous communities which depended in a great measure, on sea-bathing patronage. People, in general, are disinclined to bathe close up to railroad tracks, and they can hardly be blamed for this very natural aversion. In the summer season, Dalkey is one of the liveliest places in Ireland. Bands play every evening at Sorrento Point, the tongue of land which juts into the bay. It is cool even in the dog days because of the ocean breezes that constantly fan it. A fashionable terrace rises at the head of the Point and from it is obtained one of the grandest views of Irish coast scenery. The one drawback to Dalkey as a summer resort is that most of the shore front has been bought up for purposes of building by private speculators, and the people at large are thus excluded from some of the most attractive portions of the Dalkey coast. |
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