,,coLoured ; iit h!as Jl10re charm with, perhaps, a suggestion of effcnnins uey; His passionate intensity b 1~caror the surface, more easily discernible: in pattern it is more luxuriant. In Donegal the form is more geometrical :and ·aesthetic wi:th something of the Tugged grandeur of o~r clifiJs and mountains : In i't is a harder core wh'ich 1serves to check the .swelling surge of passion. In Kerry's lamentation the wound is deep, but always accompanying the sorrow is a suggestion of surprise that life's high--summer glory is gone. In Donegal the lamEITTtation is no less fieree but the wound, if deep, is less apparent, and the note ·Of surprise is absent: an:l one senses the log'ic of the h!ar.d-headed Noritherner who recognises that winter cold al!ld bleak must inevitably follow in the path of the loveliest sumimer. To many of 1the mysteries of tiraditional music which .plague musicologists >Donegal music, he thinks, m·ay provide a clue. The singularity of it1s idiom is well worth do.se study; and the "provincialism'' of its aocent should 1serve to .endear it all the more to a 1world grown weary of cosmopolitanism. A :-NINETEENTH CENTURY ..CHEMICAL ,WORKS AT RAME:LTON ",I observed in the Great E~hibition a case of chemical stuffs ;produced from Irish sela weed-viz. iodine, chloride of pota:ssium, su]phate of pota:sh and alkaline 10.f kelp-salt, manufactured in the Ramelton Chemical Works by the exhibitor, Mr. John W1ard. These works the first of the kind started in Ireland 1were established by Mr. vVard in Ma~ch 1845 ... to the town of Ramelton 1these Chemical W1orks have been of the grelatest 'benefit by the number of workmen labourers empl1oyed in and around it, and t:he very considerable shipping :trade, in vessels ranging from 50 to 1'20 tons, which the importation of mtanufaotured stuff has been the means o.f bringing to Lough Swifly." 1(Fr~~1emacn's Journal.-27th Sept., 1851). Who was J1ohn "r~rd and 1what became of his faetor1y?
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