Excerpt from M'comb's Guide to Belfast, the Giant's Causeway and Adjoining Districts of the Counties of Antrim and Down: With an Account of the Battle of Ballynahinch, and the Celebrated Mineral Waters of That Neighbourhood

Tm; principal object of the present work is, to afford to tourists and other strangers visiting the north-eastern portion of Ulster, as well as to residents resorting to its numerous watering-places during the Summer season, accurate topographical, historical antiquarian, and general information regarding the localities of leading interest - their scenery, inhabitants, natural curiosities, attractions to those in search of pleasure or health, commercial, agricultural, and social progress, industrial resources, &c. In these respects the publication will be found somewhat different from the various hand-books which have preceded it, in frs quent divergences from the beaten track, and in notices of places, events, and characters not usually met with in similar compi lutions of limited compass. This feature of the work has been steadily kept in view, in order to render it valuable to those for whom it is chiefly intended, not merely as an ordinary Guide, but also as delineating and elucidating scenes and subjects of extraneous interest.

It is only within a comparatively recent period that the picturesque beauties of Ulster - striking as many of these are now universally admitted to be - have become known to the tourist and traveller, to an extent sufficient to make this part of the Western Island worthy of exploration. The Giant's Cause Way - presenting all the scenic attributes of wild and romantic sublimity, and, to the scientific inquirer, the greatest geological wonder in Ireland - has, it is true, long attracted visitors from all civilised lands, and therefore acquired a world-wide celebrity.

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