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| WATER WORKS, CITY OF CORK.-This sketch shows the hill above the river Lee, on and along which are situated the excellent water work's buildings of the City of Cork. If, in many respects, Ireland, chiefly because of political excitement and social disasters, is backward of other countries less richly endowed by nature, she is wealthy, indeed, in her deep, clear and rapid rivers, her crystal lakes and her pellucid springs and streamlets. "The best watered country in Europe." was the verdict of Arthur Young, the eminent English traveller and writer, on Ireland in the last century. Cork, which has two fine streams, and numerous gushing springs, is particularly blessed in this regard, especially since her modern water works, in every way abreast of the times, were constructed. The water supply is copious and the cost is reasonable. In the matter of municipal government, Ireland has proved herself, in all her great cities, fully equal in ability to richer, and freer, Albion-thus practically disposing of the old time slander, invented and propogated for political effect, the Irishmen have not the governing faculty. In the the cities of Ireland, they have certainly shown themselves not inferior in govermental capacity to any other race. |
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