Fifty Hausa Folk-Talks

He turned to see the Lake's blue plain, With all its emerald glories round it 5 But there appear'd a grand demesne, By towering elms and poplars bounded.......He look'd behind-the scene was gone-A thrill of wonder gather'd o'er him; For, nothing save the blue Lake shone With all its silver curls, before him."There was another legend, but a very vague one, about a city submerged by a magic well under the beautiful lake of Inchiquin.The legend seems to have died out near Corofin.Another curious legend about Inchiquin lake was found by Dr. G. TJ.MacNamara, to the effect that the lake originated from an old woman piercing the earth with a spindle, when waters burst out and filled the valley

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