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| MEETING OF THE WATERS, KILLARNEY. -The above view shows the Old Weir Bridge-an antique structure of two arches-through which foams and rushes the river channel, connecting the Upper with the Middle and Lower Lakes of Killarney. In the foreground, where the boatman leisurely plies his oars, appears the "Meeting of the Waters," behind Dinis Island,-a title obviously borrowed from Moore's well-known ballad descriptive of its Wicklow namesake. Through the ancient bridge the strong current flows with such strength and velocity that, at high water, passengers generally make a short "portage," so as to lighten the boats and avoid possible fatal accidents. When the bridge is passed, the current of the stream, no longer too closely confined, becomes comparatively gentle. On the right, the channel connects with the Middle, or Muckross, Lake, and on the left with Longh Lene, commonly called the Lower Lake. There is hardly in the whole unrivaled natural panorama of the Killarney region a spot more lovely, and enticing, than the "Meeting of the Waters." Travellers linger there longer, perhaps, than elsewhere in that "Eden of the West," and the memory of it, and its beauteous surroundings, nerver fades from the mind of the beholder while life and consciousness remain. |
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