CHAPTER XI.
BORRIS, _Friday, March 2d._--This is the land of the Kavanaghs, and a lovely, picturesque, richly-wooded land it is.

I left Dublin with Mr.
Gyles by an afternoon train; the weather almost like June.

We ran from the County of Dublin into Kildare, and from Kildare into Carlow, through hills; rural scenery quite unlike anything I have hitherto seen in Ireland.

At Bagnalstown, a very pretty place, with a spire which takes the eye, our host joined us, and came on with us to this still more attractive spot.

Borris has been the seat of his family for many centuries.