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Otway muses on the metaphor of birds
"Having thus given the modern and ancient state of this purgatory, it is time to think of leaving it; and I confess I prepared to turn my back on this strong hold of superstition, without a desire ever again to visit it..."
"The Mouth of a Horrible Cave"
"SCENE XVIII.
A REMOTE PART OF THE MOUNTAIN WITH THE MOUTH OF A HORRIBLE CAVE..."
A REMOTE PART OF THE MOUNTAIN WITH THE MOUTH OF A HORRIBLE CAVE..."
"Without doubt to-day some pilgrim Roweth to this island shore."
"SCENE VIII.
THE ENTRANCE OF A CONVENT — AT THE END THE CAVE OF PATRICK..."
THE ENTRANCE OF A CONVENT — AT THE END THE CAVE OF PATRICK..."
The demon Corna
"When we were within half a bow-shot of the said island of the Purgatory I saw a bird blacker than coal take flight ; it had not a single plume or feather on its back..."
"Lake of the Grouse"?
"The antiquary, John O'Donovan…dismissed the name, Loch Dearg, and corrected it to Loch Derc, meaning the Lake of the Cave..."
Forty-six small islands
"Lough Derg is dotted with forty-six small islands, some of them graced with shrubs and occasional rowans or ash, but the greater number are only bare rocks projecting out of the water..."
Tags: Alice Curtayne, Allingham Island, Ash Island, Bilberry Island, birdlife, Bull's Island, Derg Beg Island, Derg More Island, Eagle's Rock Island, Friars' Island, Gavelands Island, Goat Island, islands, isolation, Kelly's Island, loneliness, Philip Boy Island, Priors' Island, Saints' Island, Station Island, stones, Stormy Island, Trough Island, twentieth century
"Rolling, tawny bogland framed the blue water"
"Turning back from [St. Dabheoc's Seat] to look down on Lough Derg, the aerial view of Station Island is exquisite..."
"Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg"
"Eagles build in the islands of Lough Derg, in places apparently very accessible to man..."
"Sure it's an aigle!"
"'What bird is that ?' said the Captain, rousing himself. 'Sure it's an aigle!' said the men ; and, for want of something better to do, the whole party stood, sat, or reclined, watching the bird as it hovered uneasily round and round them..."
Tags: birdlife, boating, eagle, Eagle's Rock Island, eggs, fauna, fishing, Henry Newland, lake, memoir, nineteenth century, poaching, upper lake
Eagle's eggs
"It so happened, that the Parson had marked the very clump in which the bird had pitched, and had taken the bearings accurately. Guiding his course by these, he scrambled over huge, loose, mossy stones, so large, so irregular, and so unconnected with…
Tags: birdlife, dryness, eagle, eggs, fauna, fishing, Henry Newland, lake, memoir, nesting, nineteenth century, poaching, upper lake