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I believe August is a bad month for botany ; the 

 fructification of most plants is over, and the Crypts 

 not come on. I found a profusion of Parnassia, 

 larger and more luxuriant than I had ever seen in 

 England or Ireland. Campanula rotundifolia covers 

 the fields, but no Echium or Verbascum. Rhodiola 

 rosea is found on one side of Port Patrick, but I 

 took the wrong side and missed it. 



I spent a few days with Mr. Arbuckle. Lord and 

 Lady Clanbrassil landed and staid with us. I then 

 moved slowly on, having visits to a numerous cou- 

 sinhood. I gave three days to each, and seldom 

 more than five miles to go at a time. My last stop 

 was at Dundalk, forty miles from Dublin ; a few 

 days there with Lord Clanbrassil. He goes first 

 there when he comes from England. The house is 

 an old patched one close on the street, but the 

 grounds behind quite in the country, and beautiful. 

 Here he has his garden and hot-houses. He is very 

 worthy and a great amateur ', but not scientific; every- 

 body needs not be so. I have not room, I see, for all 

 my travels. When I came back to Dublin I was 

 obliged to set out for the south, chiefly on business. 

 I am home, and settled about a month. 



A. Caldwell. 



The two following letters relate to the state of 

 insurrection and rebellion in which Ireland was in- 

 volved at the period at which they were written. In 

 the first of these, dated May 16, 1797, Mr. Caldwell 

 addresses his correspondent thus : 



" It is difficult now to think of any subject but 



