The Plans Of The Castles, For Offence, Defence Or
Escape, Show Them To Have Been Built By Men Of Skill For Men Of Large
Means And Great Power.
XXXVIII.
OVER-POPULATION OF THE WEST - HOW PEOPLE FORM THEIR OPINIONS - MR.
SMITHWICK AND JONATHAN PYM - A DEARTH OF FISH.
Left Castlebar with regret and went down to Westport. I find at every
step since I landed the information that in going round Ireland I should
have begun at Dublin. In Dublin I could have procured a guide book. I
have sought for one in every considerable town from Belfast round to the
edge of Galway without obtaining it. If I had started from Dublin I
should have taken a tourist's ticket there. Well, I am not sorry for
that, for it is rather hard on me when I get into the beaten track where
I encounter tourists - some of them are trying specimens of humanity.
However, I am made to feel as if I was patting the wrong foot, instead
of the best foot foremost.
I got into Westport in the fair sunlight in the early part of June.
Between Castlebar and Westport the land is part stony, part bog, part
better land under grass. Mountains with hard names, that one makes haste
to forget, are to be seen all round from whatever side of the car you
look. They are all over - a good deal over - one thousand feet high. A few
lakes are spread out here and there also.
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