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The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

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MUNSTEE. 431<br />

Bantnj, at the head of Bantry Bay, iu which 14,000 Frenchmen were Lmded<br />

in 179G for the liberation of Irel<strong>and</strong>, is known only to artists <strong>and</strong> fishermen.<br />

Castletown Berchaven, on the same bay, is a fishing village. Rounding Mizen<br />

a 20 2 2? ",„. '<br />

^2 33 ^33^ 36.<br />

Head, we enter the bay which is bounded on the east by Clear Isl<strong>and</strong>,<br />

<strong>and</strong> whose entrance is proclaimed afar by a lighthouse on Fastnet Eock.<br />

Skibbereen, on an estuary of that bay, has some coasting trade ; but Baltimore,<br />

nearer to the open sea, although it has given <strong>its</strong> name to a great American city,<br />

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