Not far from the western end are the remains of what must have been a very fine Round tower, judging from the style of its masonry, now, however, only about 15 feet in height.
Even the walls are levelled save for the remains of an oratory, whose western gable contains a doorway with rich decorations.
The western base of this mountain descends into Augher Lake, and close to this spot is the Woodwork Factory, where carved specimens of arbutus and other woods can be obtained in inlaid tables, chess and backgammon sets, card cases, etc.
Pencilled eyebrows and abundance of dark-brown hair usually accompany these, and that clear complexion which the moist western breezes confer.
On the western side of the mountain is a small circular lake, about 600 yards in diameter across the top.
The western end contains a doorway of recessed arches, covered with particularly fine mouldings and decorations.
A most beautiful cascade at the western end of the lake tumbles down the mountain side and empties itself in a dazzling sheet of foam into its waters.
I do not know what was in Bob Holliday's head, but about this time he managed to open the western door while the master's back was turned.
But he could not make up his mind to do either, though Bob Holliday had again mysteriously opened the western door.
That young man came from what, from a Western point of view, we used to think good stock.
The Western brain holds no corner for superstitions, but casts them scornfully away.
The star of empire cannot be arrested in its western course before it reaches this plain.
Cragin, of New Hampshire, in the House of Representatives: "When our forefathers reared the magnificent structure of a free Republic in this Western land, they laid its foundations broad and deep in the eternal principles of right.
They are found on the western coast of Norway, and on the coasts of England.
For the opinions respecting the Stigmaria ficoides, see a Memoir on “The Formation of the Rocks in South Wales and South-Western England,” by Sir Henry T.
The famous dragons of western tradition have a similar origin.
There is, perhaps, no scene of greater geological confusion than that presented by the western flanks of the Pennine chain.
They lie at the base of the southern Highlands of Scotland, from the North Channel to the North Sea, and they range along the entire western coast of that country.
They would communicate with the ocean, which covered all the midland and western counties of England and part of Russia.
The Aryan peoples had at last filled full their little world of Western Europe.
At the same time there was growing up in Russia a Slavic civilization, which received Christianity[11] from the South as it had received Teutonic dominion from the North, and so developed along very similar lines to Western Europe.
Pope Eugenius, indeed, provided him with two galleys and a guard of three hundred men, equipped at his own expense, but the hoped-for succors from Western Europe did not arrive.
It early came into conflict with theWestern or Roman Church: "the Eastern Church enacting creeds, and the Western Church discipline.
The Christians, when at peace among themselves, were always too many for their Mahometan neighbors, even when the latter were aided by the whole power of Western Africa.
Still, the anxiety of the Eastern emperors to maintain their position by means of political support from Western Europe brought it to pass that proposals for reunion were made on several occasions.
They were tossed about the ocean during the whole summer, and knew not whither they were driven; but at the close of the first week of winter they landed at Lysufiord, in the western settlement of Greenland.
After several expeditions into Western France, Hastings became the theme of terrible and very probably fabulous stories.
Thus supported by the spiritual power, then wielding vast influence, William proceeded to gather "the most remarkable and formidable armament which the western nations had witnessed.
They surprise and get possession of the western capital, and there settle down to pass the winter.
Midland College and the Western Theological Seminary are upon its territory.
In 1848 the Synod of Western Virginia reported: "Almost all our churches have been blessed with revivals of religion.
Western synods, was unanimous, decided, and most advanced in its advocacy.
The General Synod was a declaration, on the part of the Lutheran Church in America, that she had no intention of dying or moving, that she liked thisWestern World and meant to live here.
Nor was there any time to be lost in protecting the General Synod against what they regarded as the Western peril.
She was of a proud, clannish people, with Mongolian ancestry and a Buddhist background which had not been too deeply scarred by the political pressures from Western Russia.
The sun sank below the horizon, gorgeous in red and gold, and Turner watched the last rosy flush die out of the western sky.
He pushed her down somewhat roughly under the shadow of the western bank, and then flung himself down on the ground beside her, and put his head in her lap.
Jack was passing up along the western shore line as though his plan of campaign called for a descent in some obscure quarter where they could find a hideout in which to park their aircraft while they pursued their urgent call ashore.
Jack himself began to grow a bit nervous, for the sun was just hovering above the western horizon and twilight does not last any length of time in the South.
He proposed to the regent (who could refuse him nothing) to establish a company that should have the exclusive privilege of trading to the great river Mississippi and the province of Louisiana, on its western bank.
In the more western part of the passage the currents are more complex, apparently on account of the greater variations in depth in the vicinity of the station occupied.
The general run of the soundings indicates that greater depressions exist nearer the western than in the eastern or middle part of the Atlantic, North and South.
In the Windward Passage, on the western side the currents from the surface down to 130 fathoms set in the directions lying in the S.
As in the Atlantic, the greater depths appear to exist in the western part and particularly off the coasts of Japan.
The Pacific Ocean shows the peculiarity that the surface temperatures on the western side are lower than those on the eastern side.
On the western side of the passage, near Santo Domingo, the direction of the currents was between S.
England, Germany, and Portugal subsidize steamship companies which make regular trips along the western coast, stopping at the different stations.
Labrador and New England's ironbound shores, to thewestern coasts of Ireland and the rock defended Hebrides, but one lonely ship greets the eye of angels or of men, on this great throughfare of nations in our age.
Where Christianity entered as a factor, as in the history of Western Europe and in the results of Christian missions in heathen lands, we can indeed observe a rise out of barbaric or savage conditions to refinement and culture.
Some advanced on Rocroi and Rethel, and other corps marched along the left bank of the Meuse, through wooded country, against a steadily increasing resistance which culminated at Charleville, a town on the western bank of the river.
These prepared positions had a secondary contingent value for the Germans in view of the grave Russian menace that might call at any moment for a transfer of German troops from the western to the eastern front.
The vanguard was thrown forward from Von Kluck's army at Aix, to break through the defenses of Liege and seize the western railways.
This was the first actual hostility of the war on the western battle grounds.
A sudden recrudescence of activity on the western front gave rise to the hope that the deadlock might yet be avoided, that the two great armies might come to handgrips again.
The houses have vines and sweet peas on the wall, flowers in the window, and altogether a look of comfort and ease found nowhere in Western France.
Here, indeed, we find ourselves in a wholly different world, so utterly has a spirit of inquiry revolutionized Eastern France, so long has her Western province been held in the grip of the priest.
Cold meat train~, the last train at night by which officers can reach Aldershot per South Western Railway.
The original compiler of this work was surprised, when travelling through Western Canada, to find that, instead of the renowned Cocker, the people appealed to another and more learned authority.
From the reports of a celebrated trial for gold robbery on the South-Western Railway.
Calculate~, a word much in use among the inhabitants of the Western States U.
While, however, the spirit of allegory comes from the East, there is so great a difference between the brevity of Western expression and the more cumbrous diction of the Oriental, that the origin of a phrase becomes difficult to trace.
The name is now given to a dried fish (bummelow), much eaten by natives and Europeans inWestern India.
It was one of those sectors so common on the east of the Western Front where by tacit agreement little action took place.
Losing no time, they embarked, passed over the wide ocean of the Western world, and landing safe and full of their object, offered their services to the army of independence.
Onward the little vessel sped, until it reached the American ship afloat in King's Road, to convey its two noble passengers to the new republic, just established in the western hemisphere.
That this portion of the mesozoic system extends throughout the whole of Western Queensland to Western Australia is also more than probable, hidden, however, over large areas by "Desert Sandstone.
A peculiar feature in the vegetation of the western plains is the "roley-poley," which is called in America the "tumble weed.
The sheep on being removed to western pastures throve well, and soon recovered health.
There are but one or two varieties of the plant in Queensland, though in Western Australia twelve or fourteen varieties of Gastrolobium are found.
Anthistiria membranacea," called the Flinders or Barcoo grass, is an annual of a reddish colour, found all over the western plains.
In skirting the western shores of the Gulf, Flinders identified many leading features which were marked in Tasman's chart, and which were found quite correct.
He was for many years the owner of Lawn Hill, situated on a western tributary of the Gregory River, but ticks ruined his herd.
The more northern volcanic areas, are probably contemporaneous with the upper volcanic series of Victorian geologists, so extensively developed in the western districts of that colony.
The water that flows down the usually dry channels of the western rivers southwards comes from the Gulf watershed, where the rainfall is much heavier, averaging at Cloncurry 20.
The pear blight has destroyed whole orchards of pear trees in the Western states.
The water falling upon these mountains runs off in torrents, carrying even large boulders as it does in our Western deserts.
Western Wild Life Call, published by the California Associated Charities for the Conservation of Wild Life.
The dense forests of the Western mountains consist almost wholly of narrow-leaved trees.
For many years the trapping of these little animals was an important industry, until at last they were practically exterminated in every stream throughout the western half of the country.
On theseWestern mountains were other forests with trees of wonderful size.
Illustration: Finley & Bohlman A coyote, one of the keenest-witted animals of the Western plains.
Upon the Western prairies only grain has been raised for so many years that in many places the soil will scarcely grow a crop worth gathering.
Of all the elk which once spread over the western part of our country, only a few remain outside of the Yellowstone region.
Illustration: A field of wheat on one of the Western prairies.
Upon the drier slopes of the Western mountains shrubs, such as the manzanita and chaparral, spring up and cover the surface after a forest fire.
Have you ever seen the giant sugar pines on the slopes of the Western mountains?
Illustration: Great Western Power Company of California Electric-power plant on north fork of the Feather River, California, for generating electricity which is carried to distant places.
The valuable sugar pine of the Western mountains is not seeding itself as rapidly as it should, and we fear it will become extinct.
We have read of the plagues of grasshoppers which have sometimes visited the Western states and eaten up every green thing.
Now he brightened up to add: "Say, when I get on the phone, shall I tell him to send me a draft on a Denver bank or shall I tell him to ship the cold cash by express, or wire it to Cheyenne by Western Union?
Circus life and Western adventure are a | | highly unusual as well as a delightful | | combination, but the author George S.
It was a gathering of those who came to the lot at an early hour to watch the Circus City set up shop for the one-day stand in this western metropolis.
Footnote: The Digambara sect, at least in southern India, do not seem to be all quite so punctiliously careful in this as the Śvetâmbara of western India.
German officers and men were therefore rushed from the eastern and western fronts to the south of the Carpathians to form the three armies we have labeled A, B, and C.
Although the true facts have not yet come to light, it is believed that General Joffre emphatically refused to detach any of the French troops from the western front.
At Vauquois the French infantry delivered an attack which gave it possession of the western part of the village.
The forests in the Argonne, the Woevre, and the Vosges made the trenches the best of all on the western front.
There were other parts of the front in western Europe which were becoming by far too active for either the Germans or the British to neglect them.
From her geographical position Rumania commands nearly the whole western frontier of the Dual Monarchy.
Germany and Austria were cut off from theWestern Hemisphere, and were troubled, in consequence, by shortage in food for their civilian populations to a greater or lesser degree.
Identification of the larvae of the Western Hemisphere and descriptions of three new species.
