CHAPTEE X.

Walk to the Puffing-hole at Miltown.—Arrival at Kilkee.—
Irish good humour.—Excursion to Loop Head.

Miltown; Thursday,—^We walked to-day to
view a singular piece of sea-engineering, a regular
canal—once probably a cavern worn by the sea,
the roof of which had faUen in. It is about a
mile fr'om the hotel, near the headland of a
small bay. The opposite headland is Spanish
point, where two of the Armada were wrecked
in 1688. Its creamy appearance shows what a
likely spot it was for such a catastrophe to take
place.

The weather is so stormy and unpropitious
that we have been obliged to give up the great