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"We came very suddenly upon Larne, and at the same moment that we turned over the edge of the deep glen on which it lies, the sun broke out upon the lovelv bay and village below, illuminating the whole scene with a light such as a painter would have chosen. It was, indeed, a charming picture, and there was something Italian, no less in the soft vapoury light in which it was bathed, than in the position and aspect of the town. Island Magee lay in fine outline across the bay; and on a narrow tongue of land, called the Curraan, stood the ruins of an old castle, giving a romantic and foreign air to the entire scene."

From The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland, by J. Stirling Coyne and N. P. Willis, illustrated by W. H. Bartlett, circa 1850.

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