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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 68, 15 August 1874, Page 9

"The Meeting- of the Watebs." — No, never — neither in France, England, the Netherlands, nor even in Germany — did I meet with anything comparable to Ihe wild and picturesque defiles of this Wicklow county. It even surpasses those islands of the Stockholm Bay, which I formerly preferred to everything else, but which, are now eclipsed in my eyes. I won't attempt to give you the slightest idea of them ; I could not do them justice )n "words, still less in writing. Only figure to yourself the gtandest and ihe most lovely landscape ; torrents abounding in numberless cascade), struggling to make their way through perpendicular rocks ; fores' sof almost fabulous depths, meadows and swards full wortby of tlO Emerald Isle ; and then old abbeys, modern residences and lodges, and built in the purest Gothic and airy style. Place, moreover, iv such a lovely landscape the most pious, most cheerful, most poetical population in the world. Ther, again, say to yourself that Grattan massed his childhood here; that he meditated his speeches along these torrents ; that one of these i-ai-dences was bestowed on hi 1 a by hi - fatherland, anu iaat therein lie lived in his old age ; and all thoEe jeautiful lands were sanctified >ud immortalised by the rebellion of 1, 98. — ' Montalembei-o's Letters.'