Another view of the city, as seen from a boat coming from upstreams.

This is how Lord Dunsany described this part of the river in Idle Days 
on the Yann, from the book A Dreamer's Tales:

[quote]
And now as the sun's last rays were nearly level, we saw the sight that 
I had come to see, for from two mountains that stood on either shore two 
cliffs of pink marble came out into the river, all glowing in the light 
of the low sun, and they were quite smooth and of mountainous altitude, 
and they nearly met, and Yann went tumbling between them and found the sea.
And this was Bar-Wul-Yann, the Gate of Yann, and in the distance through 
that barrier's gap I saw the azure indescribable sea, where little 
fishing-boats went gleaming by.
[/quote]

Note that Lord Dunsany visited the region long before the foundation of 
Gancaloon!

Thomas

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