Our jarvey, however, maintained that there was "better land among the stones than any bogland could be." He was a shrewd fellow, and summed up the economical situation, I thought, better than some of his betters, when he said of the whole region that "it will fatten four, feed five, and starve six." It may well fatten six, though, I should say, if the natural wealth of this vast granite range can be properly turned to account.

On every side of us lay vast blocks of granite of all hues and grades, all absolutely unworked, but surely not unworkable.

We stopped and picked up many specimens, some of them almost as rich in colour as porphyry.

Of lakes and lakelets supplying water-power the name too, is legion.
Beyond Annagary we caught a glimpse of the Isle of Arran, the scene, a few years ago, of so much suffering, and that of a kind I should think as much beyond the control of legislation as the misery and destruction which have overtaken successive attempts to establish settlements on Anticosti in the Gulf of St.Lawrence.
This town of Dungloe sprawls along the shore of the sea.

It is reputed the most ill-favoured town in Donegal, and it certainly is not a dream of beauty.