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and other families. Upon the dif- folution of religious houfes, the re- venues and fcite of this ?.bbey were granted to Captain Robert Collarn, who afligned them to Bifcop Crofbie.
The town of Killarney :s a fmjil thriving place, being confiderab'y improved fince the minority of its piefent o^ner, the Lord Vifcount Kenmare, who hath encouraged feveral inhabitants to fettle in it, and hath erected fome houfes for linen nianufaclurers, about a mile from the town. There are already four new roads iinifhed to this town, one from the county of Cork, ^vhich leads to that city; a fecond from Caftle Illand, which proceeds towards Limerick ; the third is that to the river of Kenmare before- mentioned ; and a fourth is lately made to CaRlemain ; from which lall place new roads have been car- ried to Tralee and Dingle. The rieighbourhood of the mines affords employment for feveral people, and will confequently caufe a con- fiderable fum of money to be fpent in it. A new-ftreet, with a large commodious inn, are defigned to be built here ; for the curiofities of the neighbouring lake have of lace drawn greatnumbers ofcurious tra- vellers to vifit it, and, no doubt, many more will go thither to par- take of the diverfions and amufe- ments of that place, when they can be afTured of being commodioully 2nd cheaply entertained.
The principal ornament of Kil- larney is the feat and gardens of Lord Kenmare, planted with large nurferies of fruit and timber trees. His lordfliip propofes to enlarge a canal, which runs through his gar- dens, and to make it communicate with the lake, which will net only render them more beautiful, but
will alfo add to the convenience of water-carriage to and from the lake. Not far from the houfe is a large and pleafan: park, well wooded, and Rocked with deer, which he hath alfo in plenty in the foreds of the adjacent mountains.
^he natural hijiory of Hartz Forejly in his MajeJIy^s German doyninions^ Written in German by H. Ebrcns^ M. D.
Of the cavern at Zcharzfeld.
THE cavern at Scharzfeld is well worth feeing, being caves remarkable for feveral rarities; the country people call it the Dwarf- holes. It is (ituated in the Lower HartZjin the county of Hohnftein, in a wood not far from the caille of Scharzfeld. Whoever wants to fee this cavern goes to the village of Scharzfeld to look cut for a guide. Then you proceed through a wood and a thicker, and coming near the cavern, you muft get down by the knots and branches of a large tree with fome trouble and danger, to come to the mouth of it. Whea you are on the ground, there ap- pears to your view a large cleft ia a rock, about fourteen feet high : the infide of it is lined all about with a thick and lhiningZ);-o/»-y?!;«/?. Now you advance a pretty way forwards, and muft creep a confi- derable iength, till you come into the fecond cave, which for height and bignefs is not inferior to the firfr. From hence you creep agaia with fome trouble into the third, and from thence to the fourth cave, and fo on ; and in this manner, fome guides fay, one may go five or lix Englilh miles under ground, without coming to the end.
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