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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. THE DUBLIN PENoNY JOURNAL appearance, being all well culivated, and much ornamentedl by planting in various dircetions. A little hill, standing to the westward of the town, commands, towards the south, a pleasing view of a rich anti cultivated valley, as well planted and as amply ornamented with houses, orchards, and lhedge-rows, as any vale in England. The cottages and farm houses prcseny that appearance of neatness and comfort which distinguthes the province of'Ulster fi'om many other parts of Ireland; the squalid nisery and extreme wretchedness apparent elsewhere, and so irksome to the feelings of every bcnevolent mind, not bcing apparent here. The peasantry are rather well informed, and have in general that idea of independence which gives to the lower orders of this portion of the country such a decided advantage over those of the other districts of Ireland. They are, however, very superstitious, andti attached to many old customs and pastimes. A short distance from the town is a rath or mound of earth, connected with another mound, in the form of an amphitheatre. It is fifty feet high, and, being planted with trees, forms a very pretty object, and is well worthy the inspection of the curious. About seven miles from Ballymena, and in the back ground of our illustration, is the celebrated hill, Sleive Mish, where St. Patrick is said to have tended the swine of Milco. Rather more than two miles from Bal:lymena, on the Ahoghill road, is the handsome village of Gracehill, a Moravian settlement, which consists of about forty houses and four hundred inhabitants, and forms three sitles of a quadranglc-in the front of which is a very beautifil hedgerowed pleasure-ground. Midway to this place is Galgormne castle, at present the property of Lord lMountcashel, and partially fitted up and inhabited by one of the agents to the estate. There is a legend here relative to a former proprietor, who is said to have sold himself to the devil for a certain remuneration in gold. The box which contained the treasure being still to be seen in one of the rooms of the castle. This settlement was commenced about seventy-five years since, on atownlahind containing about two hundred and twenty acres, taken from Lord O'Neill, the entire of which' is in a state of high cultivation, numbers of comfortable cottages, and thriving gardens, surrounded with luxuriant hedges, appearing in every direction. Midway from Ballymena to Ballymoney, somewhat to the left, are seen the Craigs rocks, or Fort of Craigs, which form a square of nine thousand feet in area, with a very deep trench, close to which are three pillars erect and tapering, supposed to have been placed there in honour of some valiant chieftan slain in battle; and but a short distance from them, in the hollow of a high and craggy ridge, there is a cromlech, or druidical altar-a slab of black heavy stone, one foot in thickness, ten feet long, and eight broad, originally placed upon five supporters. Beneath this is a chamber which communicates with two others, about seven feet square, and arched over--the whole standing within a circle of one hundred and thirty five feet in circumference, the ground underneath having formerlyv been hollowed into a kind of cavern. A writer in Mason's Statistical Survey, speaking of this place, observes-that it must have been the theatre of great events in former times; that it possesses more remains of antiquity than hlie has any where seen in the same space of ground. The place where the altar is erected is lonely and awfil-it induces thought, and brings back the memory to fornlcer days, over which the mind broods with pensive pleasure.-Here Fingal and his claus of Mournd antd BJdisknctd may have displayed their valour-Torgis and his Scandlinavians committed their rava es-Sourleboy (i. e. Yellow Carley) and his Scotch playe off btheir stra-