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| EAGLE'S NEST, KILLARNEY.- This fine mountain has the gift of majesty from Mother Nature and the glory of romance from popular legend and tradition. It is best seen on the passage down the river which connects Upper and Lower lakes, between Coleman's Eye and the Old Weir Bridge. The Nest is computed to be about twelve hundred feet above sea level and seven hundred above the river. Its face is rugged and precipious, clothed in trailing shrubs, rather thin in most places and adorned in the summer season, with flowering mosses and other wild blossoms of many varieties. In olden times it was the chosen home of the golden eagle, but that royal bird rarely visits the Killarney highlands in these days and is to be found mostly in the wild inaccessible cliffs of the seacoast ranges. It is well known that this mountain possesses the property of echoing back sounds in a most astonishing manner. The Killarney guide never fails to sound his buglehorn as he floats down the Long Range with the hypnotized tourist, whose unused ears are ravished with the delights of multiplied harmonies sent back upon the waters from the rugged cliffs of the Eagle's Nest. Occasionally, a small cannon is fired off at the base of the mountain, which is thickly wooded, and the echo comes back with the crashing roar of the final cannonade at Leipsic. |
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