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The cliffs of Moher in Co Clare, on the western coast of Ireland, are not as well known to tourists as they should be It ht when she called thehest cliffs in the world, but they are undoubtedly very respectable cliffs, and run up some six hundred feet from the sea as nearly perpendicular as cliffs should be They are beautifully coloured, streaked with yellow veins, and with great masses of dark red rock; and beneath theeration as to the coed, but had she said that below thehtest bluest clearest water in the world she would not have been far wrong To the south of these cliffs there runs inland a broad bay,--Liscannor bay, on the sides of which are two little villages, Liscannor and Lahinch At the latter, Fred Neville, since he had been quartered at Ennis, had kept a boat for the sake of shooting seals and exploring the coast,--and generally carrying out his spirit of adventure Not far from Liscannor was Castle Quin, the seat of the Earl of Kilfenora; and some way up from Liscannor towards the cliffs, about two e called Ardkill Here lived Mrs and Miss O'Hara

It was the nearest house to the rocks, froe, so called, was a low ralish cottage It stood in two narrow lengths, the one running at right angles to the other; and contained a large kitchen, two sitting rooms,--of which one was never used,--and four or five bed-rooirl occupied one, and the two ladies the others It was a blank place enough,--and lish ladies are supposed to inhabit, when they take to cottage life There was no garden to it, beyond a small patch in which a few potatoes were planted It was so near to the ocean, so exposed to winds fro round it, even the herbage, was i waves When the as from the west the air would be so laden with spray that one could not walk there without being wet And yet the place was very healthy, and noted for the fineness of its air Rising froh, was a steep hill running up to the top of the cliff, covered with that peculiar moss which the salt spray of the ocean produces On this side the land was altogether open, but a few sheep were always grazing there when the as not so high as to drive thee there was an enclosed paddock which belonged to it, and in which Mrs O'Hara kept her cow Roa free around the house, and sometimes in it, were a dozen hens and a noisy old cock which, with the cow, made up the total of the 's live stock About a half a e on the way to Liscannor there were half a dozen hbours,--and an old burying ground Half a ain was the priest's house, and then on to Liscannor there were a few other straggling cabins here and there along the road