. Autoroutes et voies de passage à Donegal et Antrim; . vous aimez, descendez là aussi, et au bas de la colline tournez à votre droite, où il y a probablement un niveau stretch.anyhow, rien ne peut être pire que l'alternative, qui est togo droit au niveau élevé, où vous obtenez peut-être un demi-mile d'une pente douce; puis la route disparaît autour du coin de l'asharpe, et si vous le tour avec les pieds en haut ou sans frein, le ciel vous aide ! Un petit ruisseau descend dans la baie de Portaleen, et cette route tombe vers le pont au-dessus de lui, raide comme le toit d'une maison mais en aucun cas aussi lisse. La 270 LA

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. Highways and byways in Donegal and Antrim; . you like, go down there too, and at the bottom ofthe hill turn to your right, where there is probably a level stretch.Anyhow, nothing can be worse than the alternative, which is togo straight along at the high level, where you get perhaps half-a-mile of a gentle slope; then the road disappears round asharp corner, and if you round that corner with feet up orwithout a brake, heaven help you ! A little stream runs downinto Portaleen Bay, and this road falls towards the bridge over it, steep as the roof of a house but by no means so smooth. The 270 LADY LONDONDERRYS COACH chap. road winds a good deal and the water takes short cuts whenthe rain falls, so that deep trenches occur every few yards, and if you do not run into the ditch you will probably breakthe back of your machine. Once you are over the bridge youhave to push up the counterpart of this, and the remaining sixmiles to Cushendun, though better, are not much better. It isknown in the country side as the road Lady Londonderry was. Mur lough Bay. wrecked on. Frances Anne, the old Lady Londonderry, who seems to have been a great personage in her day, once setout, with a coach and four and a new English coachman, todrive this road. He got past Cushendun and the road graduallybecame more and more impossible, until Lady Londonderry saidshe would turn; but seeing that the road was a narrow trackwhere two carts can just pass, turning was not so easy. The XVIII THE MOYLE 271 horses had to be taken out and an army of labourers summonedto the rescue before the coach could be got facing the way itwas wanted, and gently wheeled back into Cushendun. I say all this that no one may have reason to reproach me, but I recommend the road nevertheless : for it was the mostcharming piece of scenery I saw on the Antrim coast. On sucha day as is very common in Ireland—a bright flashing day withgreat clouds bowling along before the wind, radiant mists ofsunshine and travelling showers, vis

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