I R E L A’N D.
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m
armhur ; a fid' finally that .he"difed hïbtib&wyilêd-ofi many, b u hm a ’de
many waii’ when' lie- died that dearly h ô üght his death.” 1 '
. Spehfer, an excellent judge, -then obfervës that he had caufed feveral
compofitions df- the bards to hè tranflated, and' furely they favoured
•«f fweet w it, and good invention, but {tilled not- of the goodly orna-
mentiof poetry ; yet were, they fprinkled with fome pretty flowers of '
their natural device, which gave 'good grac'e and comelinefs unto
jth e w h ieh n itâ s% i€ at p i ty . td fee fo'atfufed' tl^thbigr'abhij^' df
wickednefs and vice,. which with good ufagc would ferve to adorn
and beautify virtue.”
Th em an n e rs of the fuperior elaffes o f people- in Ireland how n'eârly
approach to the Englifh ftindard, except that excels in wine, un-
fafhionable in England, . continues to prevail too m u ® ifës ’I®!àf)fïtter
îflahd. / Tfte Irifh gdntryhaKC kffh fddô'nf kl'dÉitett *t5*%eratare^ op
thfe a rts ; but amufe&themfefvd^.'.wïth- hfùntïÈg, aydfl] ^M ^ r5 ;Blfl|I^R--
«tcifes: -- Mène© am o^erflow o f'h ed tfra rid %irife;; 'Miidif he ‘bMef vktï o n
* £ an ahie- writer,, »that Ireland produces the P e t i t e # *®ftil'and4 he
fineft wctoen, in Europe, mtlft iiiît?‘he^cSftfïhefcf-to"*tBëJ ififenpfMsfâïleS.
T h e conMnon'pfeople o f irfelda^ffilhrfetaïiî“ tod3 h fliiy ’ feaftires' of'na-
tional manners. A funeral is'joined By3all fh'é* men and*^roip^nfof*’the
•vicinity, and -is àccompaniedwith dreadful howls, and' other barbarous
ceremonies; Their diet- conflits chiefly of potatoes and bjutleimilk ;
and the rural cottage-: is- a wretched5' hoVef o f mud-. The favourite
liquor is Ufquebagh, or the water o f life ; but more properly the water
o f death, being an ardent and pernicious diftillation from eorri. It is
foi.netimes rendered- a liqueur by admixture- w ith fiigar aud Tafiron, or
other plants which ' impart' various' colours. ‘ThêcÆiMfeîh oftéiîMm
o ut, in a ftate off nature, to gaxe upott - the pàlhng^ftrOTgérf httd the
drefs- o f the parents is contrived for warmth not for o r n k ln r S In former
times a remarkable: feature of national drefs was a. puckered ihirt,
cqnfifiing of forty or fifty yards o f ; linen,I dyed with- faffron, which
was regarded as an effectual antidote againft vermin. - The manners of
the country fquires, a n d jow er elaffes of Ireland, are fo admirably depicted
in a late novel entitled “ Cattle Rackrent,” that the curious may
sllfhidy
C H A P . III. C I V I L G E O G R A P H Y .
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proper attention had been ^ e f t « w e ^ l f ^ ^ n a t io n ^ ^ d ^ 1 ^ * ’ if LanW
come ere now the. general idiom o f the country
as is well known, a dialed of the Celtic 1 ^
words, imported by the Belgie colonies by the l e a n T ^ *
the Englifh.: Ireland being the laft retread o f . ? !naVlans’ a,1(] b7
fiderable population, the language may be fan-uhSt f eltS’ and o f c°n~
r)umerous and genuine Ipecimens o f the C k- Uen ? ■ ^ K
ancient lives o f the faints have , t j M » 011- The
a ^ |i ; e ^ th ; ,a n |T o y o w i « g ^ n 6 u S - ) a n d f r a 7 E B G B I 9 I remofe
9 | e r e n f e th e
Ban^%with a g a tin ' e ^ ^ d i f h interpretation I S K ^ ” ^ adeom-
<Lm J . * "***< & * than the mmn S - la ... ata. • . • . -• that Hainm./• * ,
Deiifitar do ‘Tboil nr L i S f do & l°ghachd.
In . T n T O l I t alamo mar don/tbear dr Neamh X „ ^ I '
on Sie coaft o f
«Utma race. , • Iue,‘ 1 " £ oEotcli -m the n orth are.ftffl a VCTy
inteodudlictn