Excerpt from New Lights; Or Life in Galway: A Tale<br><br>Far; away in the extreme west of Ireland when the waters of Lough Corrib reflect the changeful hues of that ever-changing sky, there is a large, straggling village running up along the bank of a rivulet, from near the shore of the lake, for a dis tance of nearly two miles. This village, which we shall call Killany, though having in itself little to interest the traveller, is still a desirable sojoun hr the summer months, while the grass is on the fields and the blue is on the sky.' The country around is, indeed, beautiful, though somewhat wild in its character, for the mountains of Connemara stand like giant sentinels in the neighborhood, receding from the inland view in many a grand perspective. Above the village, at a little distance.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.