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Identifier: motoringaboard00pres (find matches)
Title: Motoring aboard
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Presbrey, Frank Spencer, 1855- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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even went sofar as to stand in front of our car and tell usthat automobiles were not permitted up the roadto his rivals hotel, which we had started to take.His competitor, however, was alert and told usto drive ahead which we did, almost upsettingthe man in our way. We had selected the Causeway Hotel and en-joyed a very satisfactory lunch there beforestarting out for the tour of this wonderful crea-tion of Nature. There is nothing to be said about the GiantsCauseway which has not already been said orwritten. It is wonderful and impressive beyondall description and is in itself worth the trip toIreland. Even its location is dramatic, standingas it does at the very north end of the island.The mythical stories connected with it as re-lated by the glib-tongued guides, each of whomwill solemnly aver that he is the best guide there,are worth listening to. The most popular story is that the ancientgods who lived in Ireland and Scotland in theage of mythological things, got into a quarrel 232
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I 3 CO e O^ tCfje (Sianfs( Cauj^ettja;> and the Irish god dared the Scotch one to comeover and fight it out. *How can I cross the sea?the Scotch god is supposed to have repHed.Even my seven-league boots and my colossallegs will not take me across in safety, thereforeI cannot come, although if I should come Iwould easily be able to wring your neck withone hand tied behind me. That you couldnot do had you a score of hands, replied theIrish god, and, to explode your idle claim thatits the sea between us that is keeping you froma fight Ill lay a walk for you to cross on dry-footed. And with that he plucked a few hundred thousand granite blocks from the greatcliffs, hewed them in octagon shape so as tomake a good pavement, and drove them, endon, into the sea, making a roadway across. Mythology does not record whether the Scotthen came over or how the fight, if they had one,came out, but the stones to the number of overfourteen thousand are still there, running farout into and under the

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