for investigating them; but two transitory efforts were read the statements given in our brief report without made to explore them, comprising an interval of seven admitting that an astonishing progress has recently been years, in so long a period. In the memorable year 1782, made in Geological Science, not only as it regards those however, a new and general impulse seems to have been vast and extraordinary relics of former worlds and states imparted to the human faculties in this country, and the of existence-rescued from their tombs by modern geolo investigation of civil rights called forth an emulation in gists, and held up to the contemplation of philosophers, every liberal art. A number of gentlemen, principally who gaze, with equal awe and admiration, at such new members of the University, associated together this year, manifestations of the infinity of the creative power and for the purpose of investigating and communicating use-will-but even in the more practical, and, shall we say, ful and entertaining knowledge. They assembled once a more useful, application of the science to the investigaweek, and each person read his productions in turn. Into tion of the various formations of which our own island this society were admitted, from time to time, such per- is composed. sons as were eminent in the different walks of literature in Ireland, till at length the society increased to such magnitude that it was deemed necessary to give it a corporate form, to ensure its future permanence and respectability. In the commencement of the year 1786, it was incorporated by act of parliament under the name of the Royal Irish Academy, for the study of polite literature, science, and antiquities. The preamble of the act states, that Ireland was in ancient time conspicuous for her schools and seminaries of learning, and produced many persons eminent in every branch of science,' and that lately several persons in the city of Dublin had met together for their mutual improvement in the above studies, to which every encouragement should be given every where, especially in Ireland.'

It consists of a Patron, (his Majesty,) a Visitor, (the Lord Lieutenant,) a President, and a Council of twentyone including four Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, Librarian, and two Secretaries, which is sub-divided into three Committees the first, of science; the second, of polite literature; the third, of antiquities.

The Council meet on the first, second, and third Mondays of every month, at three o'clock, and the Academy on the fourth, at eight o'clock in the evening. In addition to a large apartment for meetings of the Society, ornamented with portraits of their Presidents, Lord Charlemont, Mr. Kirwan, and Dr. Brinkley, Bishop of Cloyne, it has also a beautiful library, recently erected, in which there is an excellent collection of Irish MSS. among which the Books of Lecan, Ballymote, Mc. Egan, and the original autograph of the Annals of the Four Masters will be found. Several very valuable works have recently been added. The members can consult the books at pleasure. The Society annually bestow premiums for the best essays on given subjects, and persons not members are at liberty to become competitors. The premiums are allocated out of the interest of a fund of £1500, bequeathed for the purpose by Col. Burton Conyngham. The successful essays form a portion of the transactions of the Academy, which now amount to seventeen volumes of exceedingly valuable and interesting matter. Members are elected by ballot, and an entrance fee of five guineas is required, with a subscription of two guineas per annum. Parliament grants to this Institution £300 per annum.

It may be well to notice here that it was chiefly owing to the pressing invitation of this Academy, in connection with Trinity College and the Royal Dublin Society, that the British Association held their fifth general meeting in Dublin.

MEETINGS OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

In our last we gave a summary of the preliminary Proceedings of the British Association, we now proceed to make the promised extracts. We should, perhaps, here mention, in reference to the foregoing engraving of the Royal Irish Academy, that in the Library of that institution the meetings of the General Committee and Local Council were held every day, while in the Council Room the Section of Anatomy and Medicine held its meetings.

GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY.

In none of the various meetings of the Association did the impulse to assemble themselves together appear stronger, or the gratification afforded of a higher order, than in those of the Geological Section. Nor can any

"On Monday Mr. Griffith presented his Geological Map of Ireland, the result of many years' research and labour, assisted in part by the publications of Weaver, Conybeare, Buckland, and Berger. As an example of the inaccuracies of existing maps of Ireland, Mr. Griffith stated that in Arrowsmith's map, Benwee Head is placed twenty miles north of the parallel of Sligo, though it is actually due west of that town. Mr. G. then proceeded to point out the remarkable position of the mountain masses. They occur on the margin of the island, and enclose the great central limestone plain-an arrangement which, he observed, shortens the courses of the rivers, rising as they do in the higher grounds, and rapidly descending to the sea. The Shannon is an exception, having a course of 140 miles; but it is also affected by the peculiarity alluded to, its stream falling eighty feet in the first twenty miles of its course, and only eighty feet more in the remaining 120. On the great plain, which occupies the centre of the island, numerous beds of gravel occur, called Escars, which, though constant in direction, when considered in reference to small spaces, are variable when the comparison extends over greater limits. Mr. Griffith considers the great bogs as due to these accumulations of gravel, which, by damming in the water, facilitate the growth of sphagnum palustre. Under the bogs are deep deposits of marl, underlaid by clay and gravel, which further support the idea of ancient lakes. The marl was stated to be in one instance forty feet thick. Mr. Griffith, confining himself on this occasion to the sedimentary rocks, commenced his illustrations by those of a more crystalline character, such as gneiss, mica slate, &c.; and stated that he considered the great groups of Ireland as corresponding to those of Scotland; particularly the Northern to the Grampians, and the Mourne to the Dumfriesshire Mountains. The general direction of stratification is N.E. and S.W., though in Tyrone it is more nearly N. and S., being referred to a local axis; and in the south nearly E. and W. The beds of primary limestone, associated with the primary schists, are not continuous, though they occur in lines: when intersected by trap dykes, they become dolomitic. The quartz rock which is also associated with these schists, is sometimes very remarkable. At Dunmore Head it has the structure of orbicular granite, or of some varieties of trap, for which it is often mistaken. Mica slate is unequally distributed: it is abundant in the north and west, less general in the south, and deficient in the Mourne or Down district. Mica also, as a mineral, is not general, being in the Mourne Mountains often replaced by horn-blende. Proceeding to the transition schists, Mr. Griffith stated his conviction that they would require subdivision whenever materials had been collected for the purpose, in the same manner as those of Wales had been divided by Mr. Murchison. For example-in the older schists, neither conglomerates nor organic remains are found. In the newer grey-wackes, the slates alternate with sandstone; and again, in the still newer strata, limestone containing fossils alternates with the upper portion of the schists. The old red sandstone is also considered by Mr. Griffith divisible into two or three sub-sections-the upper alter nating with the mountain limestone. Mr. Griffith then described the several coal fields of Ireland, pointing out the distinction between those of the north and southbituminous coal being confined to the northern collieries. The more recent sedimentary rocks were then briefly de scribed; more especially the new red sandstone which underlies the lias and chalk on the S. and E. of Antrim, and is also found in Monaghan, and may be traced thence

through Tyrone and Derry to Lough Foyle, and round Lough Foyle to Donegal."

:

"Professor Sedgwick considered the crystalline rocks of Ireland, as described by Mr. Griffith, to accord with those of similar districts in England and on the Continent, and adduced examples of beds of greenstone occurring in He schists in Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire. pointed out also the natural cause of uniformity in crystalline rocks which is to be found in the small number of elements of which they are composed.

"Mr. Murchison, though agreeing with the general views of crystalline rocks, considered that there were many examples of those rocks inter-stratified with slates which exhibited no appearance of intrusion; a position to which Mr. Griffith assented.

Mr. Greenough was not convinced by the example cited, that sienitic granite had been protruded subsequent to the chalk; and Captain Portlock suggested that the term might have been applied somewhat vaguely.

above and below it not. In Slieve Gullin greenstone and granite were stated to be actually mixed together, whilst "Mr. James Bryce, in reference to Mr. Griffith's notice in Carlingford the contact of the sienite (or greenstone) of the new red sandstone, pointed out its similarity in the with the granite, is concealed by debris. After noticing N.E. of Down to corresponding beds on the other side of briefly the ochre beds which so often separate the beds of the channel, as described by Mr. Murchison, this identity basalt, and expressing his belief that the trachytic porbeing particularly supported by the occurrence and posi-phyry of Sandy Brae in Antrim, was nothing more than tion of the magnesian limestone of Cultra. Mr. Bryce this ochre indurated by heat, Mr. Griffith adduced the fact then adduced examples of transported materials occur- of beds of sienite, traversing the cliffs of Murloch bay, ring in the gravel beds, which could not have been supplied and containing detached portions of chalk, as proof that by the rocks of the vicinity. In Antrim, for instance, he the sienite was posterior in appearance to the chalk, and supposes the fragments of primary rocks to have come from gave as his opinion that all the crystalline rocks had been Donegal and in Down, the fragments of chalk, flints, and fused, and in most cases projected from beneath through trap to have come from Antrim-thus, in his opinion, the sedimentary rocks, the appearance of regular strata establishing a general north or north-western current. being due to their projection in a direction parallel to the "Captain Portlock observed, that a very rigid comparison strike of the beds. of the removed fragments, and of the parent rocks, was essentially necessary before any conclusion could be drawn from the pebbles of primary rocks found in the gravel beds, since such rocks, in endless variety, were to be found in so many different localities-as well, for example, in Antrim, as in Derry or Donegal: nor was it possible yet to say that all such localities were known, as within the last few months he had announced to the Geological Society of Dublin the discovery of a small granitic district in Cava n, unknown even to Mr. Griffith. From pebbles of chalk and trap more correct deductions might be drawn; but in the case of Down, the distance they have travelled is s mall; and though the transport is a good and strong proof of a local current in that direction, it is not sufficient to establish a general one over the whole country. Captain P. considered that it is far more probable that the modifica tions of the earth's surface into valleys-or in other words, the elevations of distinct groups of moun- "On Friday, at the meeting in the Rotunda, Mr. Babtains as well as of the lower strata, have in like manner bage, in presenting the report of the Statistical Section, modified the directions of currents from that general di- mentioned, that as the ordnance survey of the county of rection, which may be expected to follow the motion of Londonderry had formed a leading subject of discussion the earth and other physical phenomena. But it is to in the section, he would take that opportunity of giving the great central plain of Ireland that attention should the following analysis of the arrangement adopted in the be turned, as it affords an ample scope for the operation work. The first section, in its division under the head of the great moving currents. At present the gravel of natural features and natural history, describes all that resting upon it is supposed to be limestone, that is local, nature has done for the district. The second section deand arranged in a variable manner, as before stated. scribes the works of art, modern and ancient; tracing Captain Portlock considers also that the regular arrange- back the present buildings to those they have successively ment of gravel in beds separated by sand, distinguishes it replaced, from the modern church to the ancient cromas a phenomenon from those scattered masses or boulders lech. The third section describes the people and their which often rest on the very summit of the gravel ridges. institutions, beginning with their early history, and gradual "Professor Sedgwick pointed out, in confirmation of advancement to the present condition of their social and Mr. Griffith's views, many striking instances of agree- productive state. Mr. Babbage proceeded to express the ment between the strata of Ireland and those of Scotland. strong opinion of the section respecting the advantages "On Wednesday Mr. Griffith resumed his observations which must result to statistical science, from the example on the rocks of Ireland, referring frequently to his map of a work so minute in its details, and so lucid in its arand the illustrative sections which accompanied it. Hav-rangement; and enlarged on the beneficial effects which ing previously described the sedimentary, he now entered the continuation of the work in the same enlightened on the crystalline rocks considered as rocks of intrusion. spirit would produce to Ireland. In the Wicklow range, extending to Brandon, the granite contains no horn-blende, and, as previously noticed by Mr. Weaver, occurs sometimes as beds in mica slate. In the Mourne or Down range, the granite contains hornblende, which frequently predominates over the mica. In Wicklow, mica slate, passing into gneiss or clay slate, abut without disturbance against the granite. In Down mica slate is wanting, and the other schistose rocks are frequently disturbed. In western Donegal mica slate and quartz rock are abundant, the quartz rock being developed to a great extent; and in Galway also, associated with mica slate, quartz rock is extensively diffused. In both these counties granite occurs, and the crystalline stratified rocks are referred to as affording distinctive characteristics of its several localities. The phenomena usually exhibited by granite veins are frequently observable, such as their passage through the adjacent schists, detached portions of which are often enveloped in their substance, and the change they effect in their structure. Mr. Griffith now described the older and newer trap districts, mentioning many interesting particulars connected with them, such as the capping of quartz rock by greenstone, the concentric arrangement of the beds of greenstone in Donegal, and the occurrence of quartz rock between two beds of greenstone, the quartz being columnar, the trap

"Professor Sedgwick, in commenting on the proceedings of the Geological Section, observed, that the map of Mr. Griffith, and his illustrative remarks, had done much to connect the geology of Ireland with that of other countries; while it cannot be doubted, remarked the Professor, that the labours of more recent observerssuch as the officers of the Ordnance Survey, Mr. Bryce, Mr. M'Adam, and others, will throw further light on this subject, and result in a still more accurate and perfect map.. The Professor dwelt with great force on the advantages which had attended the union of geology with other sciences, each shedding a light on the other; and this not merely as regarded the more obvious combination of zoology and botany, but also as it referred to that connection with the physical sciences. But the highest bursts of the Professor's eloquence were called forth when he passed in review the labours of Professor Phillips and M. Agassiz, and gazed, as it were, on the bright and fascinating pages of the early natural history of the world which they had assisted to unfold. Now, indeed, the skill of the zoologist is an essential, an indispensable guide to the geologist; and in like manner the geologist may claim the reciprocal merit of having provided materials for perfecting the knowledge of organic beings, by supplying those links which before seemed inexplicable gaps in the order of creation."

"On the same day Dr. Jacob read a paper on certain | Cooper, Esq., M. P. for Sligo, to his seat at Markree, fossil polyparia found in alluvial deposits in the vicinity where they had an opportunity of inspecting the very of limestone hills.

"The fossils alluded to are found deeply embedded in a stiff clay which lies to a great depth on the sides of the limestone hills, called Dunamace range, in the Queen's county, the situation is particularly described, to elicit descriptions of the locality of similar productions in other situations. The condition of these organic remains, although not now first noticed, Dr. Jacob considers highly interesting and well worthy of more attention than has been hitherto paid to them by geologists, affording, as they do, evidence of successive chemical changes in composition, calculated to elucidate the obscure subject of the envelopment of organic fossils. The coral is siliceous and embedded in a matrix of limestone, much of which has been removed by some solvent, leaving the animal product in a fine state of preservation exposed. The original carbonate of lime of animal origin, appears to have been removed and silex substituted for it, so exactly that the most delicate lineaments of the fossil are preserved; this again appears to have been embedded in the carbonate of lime, constituting the present limestone matrix, which matrix has since been partially removed, Leaving the siliceous coral projecting from the block. This dissection of the fossil, Dr. Jacob considers to have taken place while the fragment lay in the soil protected from the atmosphere, but exposed to the solvent effects of water and carbonic acid. Some doubts are entertained

as to these fossils being separated from the rocks in the vicinity, as they are not found except sparingly in the quarries; in which case they must be derived from some more distant source, and constitute part of a great mass of detritus.

"On Thursday, in the Zoological Section, Mr. Sturge, of Birmingham, read a highly interesting paper on the recent discovery of a Toad in a sandstone rock in Park Gardens, Coventry, during the excavation of the hill for the railway. Portions of the rock having been separated, a number of them were thrown into a waggon, and the one containing the animal having fallen off, was separated by the fall into two portions; in one of these John Hart and Thomas Tilly, two of the workmen, discovered it, and, with a kick of the foot, dislodged it from the cavity alive. The other workmen were then called to witness the fact, and the animal and the two fragments of the stone were taken home by the engineer, who again introduced the animal, and closed them up. In this manner, with some occasional disturbance, it lived for a period of four days. The sandstone was tolerably porous, but quite free from damp from which the animal could draw nutriment, or any fissure by which it could be supplied with air for respiration. A very interesting conversation here took place as to the state of vitality in which the animal existed previously to its discovery. It was maintained by one of the section, that it must have been hermetically sealed up in a state of torpor, otherwise the waste consequent upon respiration must, in course of time, have led to its extinction; and in this opinion he appeared to be joined by almost all present. It was stated by Mr. Sturge, in reply to a question, that on its first enlargement, the animal appeared to suffer considerable uneasiness and difficulty of breathing; but he was unable to say whether the concussion experienced by the splitting of the rock could have led to its resuscitation, the two workmen already mentioned being the only persons present at the time. Mr. S. informed the section, that he had written to England for the two portions of stone containing the cavity, for exhibition here."

In our Report we mentioned, as an appropriate finale to the proceedings of the Association in Ireland, that in the course of the week following that in which the Meetings were held, a large party of the members, chiefly those engaged in geological pursuits, proceeded on a visit to Lord Cole, at his noble residence of Florencecourt, while another, principally such as were interested in astronomical observations, accompanied E. J.

superior astronomical instruments belonging to that distinguished and scientific individual; one of them, his Achromatic Telescope, of which there is an engraving on the opposite page, is the finest in the world; the object glass, which is 13.3 inches in diameter, being the largest ever made. Indeed, it is a matter calculated to afford gratification to Irishmen, that a private gentleman, residing in a remote district of the country, should have, in a complete and well-appointed observatory, the most efficient telescope in the universe.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EQUATORIAL MOUNT

ING OF MR. COOPER'S GREAT ACHROMATIC
TELESCOPE.

The sketch is an elevation on a scale of inch to a

foot, of the Telescope, &c. as seen from the east side,
Star, at six hours after transit.
and represents the instrument as pointed to the Polar

The Pier, A, A, A, is composed of large blocks of black marble, well jointed, and in some places cramped together, four feet thick at base, and decreasing to three feet and a half at top; the north and south sides are sloped to the latitude of the Observatory, viz. 54° 10, and have steps, (not seen in the figure,) and also landing places cut in them for convenience of ascending and reading the cir

cles.

form a right angle with the south side; into this part a
Two feet of the north side at B is sloped off, so as to
strong cast iron frame is fixed, carrying two cast iron rol-
lers, twelve inches diameter, with steel pivots, one inch
and a half diameter, turning in very hard bell-metal bear-
ings; part of one of these rollers is seen at C, they sup-
port the Polar Axis at its upper bearing, touching it in
points, making an angle of 90° with its centre. D, E is
the polar axis, of cast iron, turning between the friction
rollers at D, at which place it is fifteen inches and a quar-
ter diameter, and its lower part ending in a hardened steel
this block is moveable in the cast iron block, G, by means
pivot, turning in a block of very hard bell-metal at F;
of four screws, g, and serves to adjust the polar axis; the
box is screwed on the planed surface of a strong cast iron
plate, H, which is firmly attached to the stone, I, project-
ing out of the Meridian side of the pier. K, the hour-
circle of cast iron, with a strong circle of brass, properly
secured to it, having its edge ratched into 720 teeth, in
which the endless screw, connected with the clock, works,
and graduated on the under side. L, a metal box going
from side to side of the pier in the clock-work.. M, &
channel in pier for the clock-weight. N, N is a strong
hollow piece of cast iron, square in centre for sixteen
is attached to the polar axis by four bolts, n, and carries
inches, and at each end cylindrical, with strong flanges; it
friction rollers, 7 inches diameter; working on steel
pivots, one one-fourth diameter; two of these rollers are
seen at O, on them turns the declination axis, a small part
of which is seen at P and Q: they support the axis at
points which form an angle of 120 degrees with the cen-
tre of the axis, and therefore always include the centre of
gravity of the latter between them. The declination axis
of cast iron, twelve inches diameter, has, on the end next
the telescope, a square flange, to which the cradle, R, is
attached by four bolts; it is prevented sliding off the rol-
the friction, by means of a roller, five inches and a half
lers, (or in the direction of its own length,) with very lit-
diameter, having a long spindle fixed to it, and turning in
bearings placed in the polar axis; this roller moves in a
groove cut in the declination axis; the latter will on being
inclined either way by the turning of the polar axis, cause
one of the sides of the groove to bear against the roller,
which, by partaking of any motion given to the declina-
tion axis, allows of the latter turning freely on its rollers
without shifting laterally; the groove being about the
hundredth part of an inch wider than the diameter of the
roller, prevents the roller touching both sides of the
groove at once. To the cradle R, of cast iron, is attach-
ed the telescope tube, SS, by two jointed wrought iron
diameter in centre, sixteen inches at each end, of a panell-
straps. T, the tube, is of rolled iron, twenty-four inches
ed construction, weight 8 cwt.
in six parts, of cast iron; the interior of each part pre-
U is the counterpoise
sents an annular ring divided into six parts by partitions,
which are filled with lead, except a space of 1-6th of two

A

THE FAITHFUL LOVERS.

"Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met or never parted,

We had ne'er been broken-hearted."

BURNS.

In the barony of Fermoy, and on the bank of the river Funcheon, lie the ruins of the ancient church of Molaga, celebrated for the crowds of devotees that resort there to testify their respect for the saint, and to invoke his intercession. An ancient tradition of the country also relates that this cemetery contains the remains of two lovers whose matchless constancy and melancholy fate will only be forgotten when the currents of the rapid Funcheon cease to flow.

avoid eternal misery hereafter, she should promise to marry the husband of her father's choice. The weak girl, terrified by the artful representations of one whom she was taught to look up to as the interpreter of every doubt, yielded reluctant consent-promised to abandon Shemus Oge O'Keefe for ever-and the day was already fixed for her marriage with the wealthy stranger to whom we before alluded. During the progress of this baleful proceeding, her unfortunate lover made frequent attempts to see her, but his endeavours were baffled by her father's vigilance. The ruin of his hopes, the rumoured inconstancy of the maid he idolized-the consuming, restless flame that burned within his breast-all preyed with fatal activity upon his constitution. At length he heard that the day had been fixed for Mary Fleming's wedding: hẹ resolved to see her once more-to bid her an eternal adieu-to catch a parting view of one he loved so tenderly and then return to his bed of death, or to eternal exile from his native land. Let fate do its worst, he was prepared to suffer. For this he sought an interview, and Mary promised to meet him by the twilight hour on this day, at the well of St. Molaga.

gloom at the appointed place, she could scarce believe When Mary Fleming arrived in the haze of the twilight that the emaciated figure which bent before her, was the gay and accomplished youth who delighted her eye a few short months before. The calm despair that sat on his marble brow-the death-like paleness of his cheek—and the faint glare of his glazed and sunken eye, appalled her, and, flinging herself upon the chilly sward, wild and broken bursts of feeling seemed to convulse her very soul. "O, Shemus Oge! is this the reward of your faithful love? Are that sunken cheek and hollow eye Mary Fleming's gifts for rescuing her from certain death, on that day when the waters of the rapid Funcheon were closing over her head? O! had I then died, I should not now be the ruin of your health, and the destruction of my own soul."

Mary Fleming was the daughter of a rich farmer that held extensive lands in the fair and fertile tract of Glanworth, or the golden vale, so called from its yellow harvests. He claimed descent from the Flemings, the magnificent remains of whose stately castle crown the bank of the Funcheon at the village of Glanworth, which anciently was a considerable town. Mary Fleming was an only child, and her father, a sordid man, was anxious to procure for her the hand of a wealthy suitor-one whose herds and pastures would equal his own. Many of the neighbouring farmers, no less smitten with Mary's fortune than captivated by her pleasing exterior, and graceful unaffected manners, at the occasional patron or rural dance of the Sunday afternoon, offered her those tender attentions, the meaning of which the most untaught of Eve's daughters are not slow in understanding; but she received their advances with cold civility. Some young men ventured to make formal proposals to Fleming, and though the character and means of these suitors were unexceptionable, yet she unaccountably rejected them. At length a wealthy person from a remote district, came and sued for her hand. The advantages of this proposal were too obvious to be contemned: Fleming accepted sacred feelings, and, with more than woman's inconstancy, Surely you do not apprehend that to trample on my him as his future son-in-law, and when he placed in re-despise that honourable passion which you yourself have view before his daughter, the good qualities and extensive approved and encouraged, can merit the exemplary pastures of her suitor, she declared with that bluntness of simplicity which is characteristic of the female mind, punishment you mention." when untainted by the simulating affectations of refinement, that she would not wed the greatest man in the five provinces; for it would be the death of Shemus Oge O'Keefe, who she knew loved her better than his own life.

Some ten months after this, in the twilight of a gloomy November evening, a tall figure, wrapped in a large dark cloak, was seen slowly to wind his course along the Funcheon, towards the well of St. Molaga. It was Shemus Oge O'Keefe, in whose favour Mary Fleming declared herself, as above related. At that time he was a tall commanding figure, where strength and agility finely blended. His family were in decaying circumstances at his birth; but he received a liberal education, for he had been brought up by his uncle, a Roman Catholic ecclesiastic, who, dying when he was young, left Shemus no other inheritance than poverty; and he returned to his widowed mother's cottage, to share her scanty means, and assist in the cultivation of a few fields which remained from the wreck of their ruined fortunes. When her father heard Mary's abrupt declaration in favour of Shemus Oge O'Keefe, he stood aghast with surprise; for though that young man, immediately after his return to his mother's cottage, was fortunate enough to preserve Mary Fleming from drowning, a stranger to the warmth of gratitude himself, he hardly reflected on the extent of the obligation due to Shemus Oge, or thought that his daughter's intimacy with her deliverer exceeded the bounds of mere acquaintance. He procured one whose influence ought to have been directed to better ends, to tamper with the simplicity of the untaught girl; who, by authority and persuasion, so wrought upon her religious feelings, that she was induced to believe, that entertaining a secret passion for any person contrary to the wishes of her father, was in direct opposition to the laws of God; and that to atone in some measure for her crime, and

the priest of God, who knows more than a thousand like
"O, poor bewildered heart !-did not Father Florence,
me-did not he say, that there was an eternity of pain for
disobedient children ?-that I could not innocently have
a liking for any young man, unless with my father's appro-
of the tempter's to lead souls to perdition. O! he be-
bation;-that what young people call love, is but a snare
wildered my brain-every night in my dreams I saw hell
open to receive us; and last Sunday I swore to renounce
for ever, and marry Myles Mahony."
forgive you; and God forgive them that practised on
"Mary," said he, with a calm and collected tone, “ I
your simplicity of heart. My feelings are not like those
of other men: my love has been as fierce as the lava-fire
which burns in the bowels of Etna-it has consumed the
marrow of my bones. This is the last time I shall ob-
trude my accents on your ear-never, never more_shall
this unfortuate wretch cross the pathway of your future
life. Mary, farewell for ever.

you

to Myles Mahony on the next Sunday, and it is said that The wretched Mary Fleming gave her reluctant hand the unfortunate girl heard the mournful howling of O Keefe's little dogs during the marriage ceremony. This denoted that a descendant of the race of O'Keefe was dead; and the report soon prevailed, that Shemus Oge had breathed his last. The bride, in all the settled calmness of despair, with a firm, subdued tone, and tearless eye, requested her husband's permission to weep one half hour over the corpse of Shemus Oge O'Keefe. It was the request of her bridal night; nor did he deny the

• It is said that the approaching death of an O'Keefe is howling of dogs. A man in Duhallow lately assured me, that announced by a supernatural melancholy cry, resembling the he both saw the three tittle dogs and heard their howling at the time the last representative of the O'Keefe family died,