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tificial diseases which idleness and intemperance engender among the 
more opulent and. self-called civilized classes. ‘The frugal meal of 
the Aranite, and his active habits, secure to him those inestimable 
blessings, to which the pampered and the great are strangers—se- 
renity of mind, good health, and green old age. 
The isles abound with a variety of medicinal and sweet herbs— 
Horenounp, Diandria Monogynia, Lycopus, Hibernis Feoran 
Cussaigh—Didynamia Gymnospermia, Ballota, Hibernis Grafan.— 
Marpen-nair, Criptogenia, Adianthum vulgare seu Capillus Ve- 
neris,  Hibernis Dubhcosach.—Campuor, Pentandria Digynia, 
Crithmum, Hibernis Grenuig.—Junirer, Juniperus Vulgaris, 
Hibernis Uhar Traighe—Mint, Didynamia Gymnospermia, Men- 
tha, (aquatica) Hibernis Cartlonn.—Tuyme, Didynamia Gymnos- 
permia, Thymus, Hibernis Thieme.—Gartuicx, Crow or wild, 
Hexandria Monogynia, Allium Sylvestre tenuifolium, Hibernis 
Gairleog Muire ;—the latter grows in such quantities as to impart its 
flavor, very strongly, to the milk and butter produced in this place. 
So various and abundant are spontaneous plants, that here a bo- 
tanist would find ample and profitable employment. They have a 
plant, in Irish “ Rineen,” in English “ Fairy flax,” (Pentandria 
Pentagynia, Linum foliis oppositis ovato-lanceotis caule dichotomo, 
corollis acutis,) and in this they greatly confide, for its medicinal 
virtues, almost in’ all cases. The tormentil root, (Icosandria Poly- 
gynia, Tormentilla,) serves them in the place of bark for tanning 
leather. There is a native vegetable, the name of which I now 
forget, which gives a fine blue die, much used in colouring the wool- 
_ leo which the Islanders manufacture for their wearing. The kitchen 
gardens are wellsupplied with every necessary vegetable. 
The islands were anciently covered with wood, as is evident from 
the numerous trunks of fir, pine, oak, &c. found in the peat bottoms 
