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| CLIFDEN CASCADE, COUNTY GALWAY.- The country around Clifden, in world-famed Connemara, is rich in all that can delight the eye of the lover of nature, and all who visit the region come away impressed with the belief that the vaunted Scottish Highlands offer nothing bolder or better in the way of wild and rugged scenery softened here and there by lakes, hills and valleys pastoral in their simple loveliness. In the very outskirts of the handsome town of Clifden, the Owenglen river precipitates itself over the rocks in the form of a rushing cascade, whose hoarse music can be heard distinctly in the streets of the pretty burgh. The Owenglen river has its rise in the Twelve Pin (Ben) Mountains, which tower to the clouds, presenting a most majestic picture, some miles from Clifden. As will be seen in the sketch, the rock-impeded river flows through a triple-arched, antique bridge, and then bursts over the jagged rocks in three masses of snow-white, sparkling foam. Many English travellers have confessed to the charms of the place, and Sir John Forbes, who saw the locality, in 1852, declared that, from a hygienic, as well as scenic, standpoint the region had no superior as a place of residence. |
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