The Basaltic Plateau. This area extends over almost the whole of Antrim (Holiday Cottages, Antrim, Ireland) and much of Derry. On the inland side long heathery and grassy slopes are characteristic, while facing the sea grand glens have been cut deep into the rocks, and marine denudation has produced in places magnificent cliffs. Between the two slopes lie broad moorlands, about 1000 to 1500 ft. in elevation, covered with bog and heather, with shallow lakelets here and there. The nature of the country and its flora may be admirably studied by taking the narrow-gauge railway from Ballymena up the landward slope to Parkmore, situated on the moorland at an elevation of over 1000 feet, and driving thence down the beautiful precipitous vale of Glenariff to the sea at Cushendall.
