22 AUGUST 1908, Page 17

A PHANTOM CITY.

[To TUE EDITOR or TUC " SP RCTATOR."] SIR,—After reading the account of the mirage seen off the coast of Connemara (Spectator, August 15th) my first act was to procure a map of Ireland and ascertain the position of Ballyconnelly. Then taking a line past the Skiards, or Skerd- more Rocks as my map calls them, I found the town of Kilkee on the opposite side of the bay, about fifty-five miles away. I then turned to Bartholomew's " Gazetteer of the British Islands " for some account of Kilkee. It is described as a fashionable watering-place possessing fine sands. It thus tallies with the appearance seen from Ballyconnelly, while there does not seem to be any other place on the coast of Clare opposite Connemara to which the account given can