Guide Through Ireland Author:James Fraser General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: William Curry, Jun. and Company Samuel Holdsworth, London, Fraser and Co. Edinburgh Subjects: Ireland History / Europe / Ireland Travel / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the origin... more »al. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Proceeding along the eastern side of the Foyle we pass through a thickly inhabited tract, containing among the prevailing marsh and bog lands on the one hand, and upland pastures on the other, several well cultivated farms. At three miles and a-half we cross the Dennet Burn, at the mouth of which the Strabane canal joins the Foyle ; at four, pass Grange, Hut- ton, Esq. on the left, where there is a ferry across the Foyle, and Thornhill and Tullarton on our right ; and at seven, leave the county of Tyrone. To the west is seen the high romantic part of the county of Donegal, which surrounds the villages of Newtown, Cunningham, and Castleforward and connects with the hill of Greenan. On passing Prehen, the beautifully situated demesne of Colonel Knox, we obtain a fine view of the ancient city of Londonderry, commonly called DERRY. If historical recollections endear this place to every lover of liberty, its situation and time-worn walls must render it interesting to all admirers of picturesque scenery. Placed on an oval hill, which rises to a height of 119 feet and washed by the Foyle, here a tidal river of more than a furlong in breadth -- encircled by its massive grey walls, and broken into all that irregularity of outline which the buildings of different heights along the steep acclivities present, the view of the old city from the approach to Waterside, the suburb lying on the right banks of th...« less