every sleeping apartment in the only inn that the place could boast, was occupied before their arrival.

However, the master of the inn so far undertook to remedy the evil of sitting up during the night, which our travellers so much dreaded, that he promised them a comfortable apartment in the house of an honest fisherman, which stood upon a wooded eminence, about two miles distant from the town, and was situated upon the margin of the same lake.

The gentleman appearing to express some anxiety during this account of the house and its inhabitant, was instantly assured by his present host that he might place the utmost confidence in the hospitality of the fisherman's family, for he had long been acquainted with them.

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Having no choice of habitations for the night, the gentleman was fain to consent to the pro. posal of his landlord, notwithstanding he was under some apprehensions for the comfort of his companion, who was a very beautiful young lady, to whom he had lately been married.

They remained at the inn till after supper, when a guide was procured to conduct them to the fisherman's habitation, and being informed that

the road was too narrow and rough to admit a carriage, they left the village upon horseback, preceeded by their guide, who had every appearance of a wild barbarian, lately brought from his native mountains.

The night was extremely stormy, and one of those furious blasts that occasionally sweep over the vast Atlantic, and heave its mighty waters, now howled in dismal sounds through the im mense woods that frown over the murmuring lakes of Killarney, or wildly whistled through the nar row fissures and yawning caverns of stupendous mountains, that seemed to slumber amid the gloom of a night of unusual darkness.

The moon was in her third quarter, and extremely bright, but her beautiful lustre was ob scured by black and heavy clouds, that were borne very swiftly along through the lurid air; yet ever and anon, her pale light glanced through an opening in the flying clouds, and gleamed on the surrounding scenery.

The road was miserably bad, and so narrow, that the travellers were obliged to proceed singly. It lay through part of a wild forest, and they continued their journey in a gloomy silence, some. times winding under the mighty arms of gigantic

oaks, that projected their knotted trunks over the pathway, and at others, slowly penetrating the solitary passes of rocks and woody glens. When the moon chanced to gleam her wan light through the cheerless gloom, they could perceive the wide expanse of a lake, at a little distance to their left, whose troubled waters added a sullen murmuring noise to the more wild whistling of the wind, and formed a fine bass to that solemn music which oft times plays amid the romantic objects of Nature's most sublime scenery, and has an effect upon the minds of those whose feelings are finely attuned, that no words can express, Vast and rude mountains, having their base cloathed with extensive woods, seemed to wave in mighty billows, in the back ground of

the view.

Having spent a considerable time in climbing the abrupt steep of a rocky eminence, that hung. over the lake, the travellers arrived at the door of a small thatched hut, that stood under the shade of some fine old trees, and which appeared to command a fine prospect of the lake, and all the adjacent scenery. Some large nets, that were extended upon long poles near the cottage, bespoke this spot to be the end of their journey.

Their guide had repeated a very loud halloo, that resembled the howl of some famished beast of prey, two or three times before the door of the hut was opened by a ruffian-like giant of a man, bearing a torch, who in a surly voice, asked what they wanted.

The guide having informed this man that the lady and gentleman he had conducted, were the travellers his master had sent to bespeak a bed for, the fisherman appeared somewhat more civil, and invited them to enter his habitation, at the same time making many apologies for the poverty of his accommodation. The gentleman dismissed. his guide and the horses, with an order to return with them at an early hour in the morning, to conduct him and his lady back to the town.

The travellers now entered the house, but not without experiencing a very considerable degree of anxiety, on account of the loneliness of their situation, and the savage appearance of their host. As they passed through the small kitchen, they observed several desperate looking men, of very large stature, seated round a blazing fire of wood, upon the hearth, were they appeared busily engaged in roasting their potatoes; but, upon the entrance of the travellers, they im

mediately fixed their rude gaze upon them, and by their ruffian visages, much alarmed the young lady, who held close to her husband, and passed onwards to a small apartment on the same floor (for the house contained but one story), under the influence of the most painful apprehensions.

Their host having placed a candle upon the table, and wished them a good night's rest, left them to their own meditations. They now found themselves in a small room, containing a low truckle bed; but with scarcely any other furniture. A small casement opened upon a view of all the surrounding scenery; but the darkness of the night was now too profound to admit of any object being seen without. There was no kind of fastening upon the door; and in order to prevent any sudden intrusion, without some kind of warning, the gentleman placed an old wormeaten, but heavy chest of drawers against it, and by that means kept it close.

They at length retired to bed; but they were kept awake for a considerable time by the operation of their fears, and the wild music of the mountain blasts that howled round the hut, in most dismal sounds, and when a transient pause occurred, they were disturbed by the loud peals