Mearing Stones: Leaves from My Note-Book on Tramp in Donegal

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MEARING STONES
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE WALL OF SLIEVE LEAGUE.
Leaves from my Note-Book on Tramp in Donegal, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL (Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil), with Sixteen Pencil Drawings by the Author.
MAUNSEL & COMPANY, LTD., 96 MIDDLE ABBEY ST., DUBLIN. 1911.
Printed by Maunsel & Co., Ltd., Dublin.
MEARING STONES
“In the mountains,” says Nietzsche, “the shortest way is from summit to summit.” That is the way I covered Donegal. Instead of descending into the valleys (a tedious and destroying process at all times), I crossed, like the king of the fairies, on a bridge of wonder:
With a bridge of white mist
Columcille he crosses,