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Title: A Child of the Glens
or, Elsie's Fortune

Author: Edward Newenham Hoare

Release Date: May 25, 2007 [EBook #21612]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: THE CLERGYMAN'S VISIT TO TOR BAY.]

A CHILD OF THE GLENS;

OR,

Elsie's Fortunes.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE
COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION,
APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
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1875

Illustrations

The clergyman's visit to Tor Bay . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

A strange waif of the sea

Jim building castles-in-the-air.

A CHILD OF THE GLENS;

or,

Elsie's Fortunes.

CHAPTER I.

Doubtless some of our readers are acquainted with the noble "coast
road" that skirts round the north-eastern corner of Ireland, extending,
it might almost be said, from Belfast to Londonderry. The
characteristic features of this noble esplanade (for such it is) are
chiefly to be seen between the little town of Larne, where the railway
ends, and Cushendall. Throughout this drive of forty miles you are
never out of sight or sound of the sea. The almost level road is seen
far ahead of the traveller, like a white boundary line between cliff
and wave. You wonder at first if the road was made merely to gladden
the tourist, for it does not seem likely that there could be much
traffic other than that of pleasure-seekers thus along the margin of
the sea. The configuration of this part of the County Antrim, however,
explains the position of the road, and justifies the engineer who was
so happily enabled to combine the utilitarian with the romantic. A
series of deep cut gorges, locally known as "The Glens," intersect the
country, running at right angles to the coast-line and