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Phoenicians, 101. Pickwick Papers, 31. Plumstead, 5, 65. Portrush, 78. Port Victoria, 12. Preservation of gravestones, 62, 71. Primitive gravestones, 12. Professional gravestones, 31. Public Gardens Association, 60. Puritans, 53, 54. Queen Elizabeth, 52. Queen of Scots, Mary, 109. Queenstown, 78, 82. Rachel and Jacob, 97. Rector's prerogative, 73, 105. Reform of graveyards, 57, 66.
An electric tramway, six miles in length, had just been completed, connecting Portrush with Bush Mills, in the north of Ireland, in the installation of which the lecturer was aided by Mr. Traill, as engineer of the company by Mr. Alexander Siemens, and by Dr. E. Hopkinson, representing his firm.
Owing to the superposition of the basaltic masses on beds of chalk throughout a long line of coast, we are presented with the curious spectacle of the whitest rocks in nature overlain by the blackest, as may be seen in the cliffs at Larne, Glenarm, Kinbane and Portrush.
This was in April, and the latter part of May the Jerrolds sailed for America, but before they did so Bessie received a letter from Flossie, who was at her grandmother's home near Portrush, in Ireland, and who wrote as follows: "DEAR BESSIE: I ought to have written you long ago, and thanked you for your kind invitation to go with you to your American home.
But two Customs officials, who noticed it with unsatisfied curiosity, decided, just as the boat cast off, to make the trip to Portrush. Happily it was a dirty night, and they, being bad sailors, were constrained to take refuge from the elements in the Captain's cabin.
For the present the power was produced by a steam engine at Portrush, giving motion to a shunt-wound dynamo of 15,000 watts=20 horse power, but arrangements were in progress to utilize a waterfall of ample power near Bush Mills, by means of three turbines of 40 horse power each, now in course of erection.
Graham had invited him there several times, but he had not been able to accept the invitations: once his father had been ill, and he had had to hurry to Portrush, where he was staying, and remain with him until he was well again; and another time he had been with Gilbert Farlow at his home in Kent; and another time had agreed to go tramping in Connacht with Marsh and Galway.
The certainty that the reality of their own loyalty was understood by the men who served the King was a sustaining thought to Ulstermen through these years of trial. This Portrush speech cleared the air. It made known the modus operandi, as Craigavon had made known the policy.
"What are you thinkin', Sheila?" he asked. "Nothin'," she said, and she drew him to her and kissed him again. "I wish I was older," he exclaimed presently. "Why?" "Because I could marry you, then, and we'd go away and see all the places in the world...." "I'd rather go to Portrush for my honeymoon," she said. "I went there for a trip once!" "We'd go to Portrush too. We'd go to all the places.
«Thus, for example, the chalky cliffs may be discovered a little eastward from Portrush; after a short course, they are suddenly depressed to the water's edge, under Dunluce Castle, and, soon after, lost entirely in passing near the basalt-hill of Dunluce, whose craigs, near the sea, are all columnar.
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