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| HORN HEAD, CO. DONEGAL. -This great promontory, which juts far out into the foaming billows of the Atlantic ocean, takes its peculiar name from the cliff which presents an acute angle to the billows at the extreme point of the rocks. In its angry periods the chainless sea hurls upon the point stupendous billows, the foam and spray of which are felt far inland. Notwithstanding the titanic force of the water, the Head does not seem to have much retrograded after the lapse of centuries. It is the salient angle of a far extended, rock rampart, but unlike most salients, appears to be practically invulnerable. The Rev. Caesar Otway, whose graphic descriptions of Irish scenery are among the best in the language, says of this famous point: "It is a place, which, in pagan times, might have been consecrated to the worship of the horned Ammonick Jupiter. Directly under us was a most curious picture to be seen; the mountain on which we stood presented sandy shelves, or valleys, in each of which lay a round and sparkling lake. These lakes looked like mirrors set inthe mountain's side to reflect the upright sun, and five or six of such sheets of silver presented themselves, until at the very root of the mountain a large expanse of water, overstudded with islands, well wooded, finished the picture." |
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