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and birds, fine corals, shells, etc. This, as usual, is an 

 omnium gatherum museum. I say decidedly that 

 everything is ill-arranged, the cases ill-constructed, the 

 ticketing bad. 



I then walked to the Zoological Gardens, which, 

 although not extensive, are very prettily arrayed ; and 

 this kind of museum is assuredly much superior in every 

 respect to a collection of stuffed animals — not that the 

 latter can be dispensed with either. 



At six left Liverpool by the Commerce Steam Packet 

 for Dublin. The cabin passengers were in general of a 

 cast much inferior to those of the " Ailsa Craig." The 

 latter had an excellent library consisting of fifty or sixty 

 volumes, including two Bibles. The former had only a 

 volume of the Spectator, with cards and a backgammon 

 table. The accommodation inferior, as well as everything 

 else. The deck crowded with ragged Hibernians of both 

 sexes, returning from the harvest. The weather was 

 beautiful until twelve at night, when we were off the 

 Point of Anglesey, and when I retired to my berth — 

 Jupiter, numberless stars, aurora borealis, phosphorescent 

 sea, etc., ships sailing towards the Mersey. There was 

 a breeze and a good deal of rain after this. We landed 

 at half-past ten at Kingstown, seven miles from Dublin, 

 and I arrived at the latter city in a filthy car driven by 

 a ragged and blackguard-looking Irishman. 



The country about Kingstown is of granite, of which 

 great quantities were lying at the harbour for exportation. 

 The splendid public edifices at Dublin are of the same 



