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Walker's Hand-Book of Ireland; An Illustrated Guide for Tourists and Travellers
Walker's HandBook of Ireland An Illustrated Guide for Tourists and Travellers Author:John A. Walker General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1873 Original Publisher: Dublin Steam Printing Co. Subjects: Ireland History / Europe / Ireland Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General... more » 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: CHAPTER VII. BRAY TO ARKLOW. jjE now start from Bray for the Glen of the Downs, the Devil's Glen, and the Vale of Ovoca. The journey could be quickly made by rail; but then we should miss the most interesting points, and see very little of the beauties of Wicklow, except where the line runs through the Vale of Ovoca. It is, therefore, far better to take a car, and stop when and where we please. The first sight on our way is the highly picturesque demesne of Hollybrook, the seat of SirG. F. Hodson, Bart, who kindly allows strangers to drive through it. The house is a handsome Elizabethan mansion, situated on the margin of a wooded valley, which lies between it and the Little Sugar-Loaf. The place is celebrated for its fine timber, and particularly for its ever-green oak, cypress, and yew. The road from this to the Glen of the Downs runs along the bottom of the valley between the two Sugar-Loaf mountains, and enters that romantic ravine about four miles from Bray. It is a mile and a half in length, terminating near the pretty village of Delgany. The sides, which rise boldly, are covered with primitive wood, oak, hazel, birch, holly,« less