THE KING’S EMPIRE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12255, 19 February 1937, Page 2

THE KING’S EMPIRE

IRELAND—THE SIGHTS 01'’ Till: NORTH Let us come to Northern Ireland— Ulster, the home of the Ulsterman, and the area from which came, lie once popular long coat known as an ulster. Great changes for the better have taken place in life here during the last century or so, and here good use, is made of the land. The finest scenery of the north is found in Donegal, Here again there are gaunt, bare, rocky giants; Using out of loughst—he same word as theScottish “loch”; there are magnificent coast views, and wide prospects; of moor and mountain. The finest of the arms of the sea which *r® thrust into the land all round tie coast is Lough Swilly,, “the Luke of Shadows." We must stay here to do a little boating upon it, and must not miss a visit to the old city of Londonderry, with its memories of the terrible seige in IGS9, when Janies Stuart’s army tried in vain to capture the town. .■ But we must not stay too long » Donegal, for we have yet to see tie marvel of Nature, the Giant’s Causeway, and al Ithe other wondrous shapes into which lava flowed hundreds of thousands of years ago after a volcanic eruption in what Ist h°" County Antrim. These striking- shapes are chiefly those of columns or P«* lars, which fell into all kinds of « r ' rangements so like the work ot human hands that one can scarcely believe them to be accidental. Thur® are the Organ with its Pipes, the Giant’s Loom, the Lady’s Fan, Antrim’s Parlour, and so on. in lava flowed in a solid mass, but as.” cooled it broke up, and thus the w 000 pillars came into being. , We make a hurried visit to» e ' fast, rich and busy, but not ate**' tractive city, though with gloi’io country quite close to it. Here is t“ industrial centre o flreland. Rcl[ lias a prosperous linen manufaclU and a ship-building industry,of g r ® value. The second is of m°fl growth; the first dates back, a-'6 1 long time. ;