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and heroic resolution, and strong and lofty passion glowing in 

 the countenance, there is a manifestation of creative power, of 

 divine skill, unrivalled in any spot or portion of the works 

 of God. 



The extraordinary personal beauty of these Galway women 

 was not mere imagination on my part, nor the result of any 

 undue susceptibility. I said to the coachman, as we passed 

 through this part of the country, that I never saw a handsomer 

 people. &quot; That,&quot; said he, &quot; travellers always remark ; &quot; and 

 when I left the country, in casting my eye over a recent book 

 of Travels in Ireland, I found the author s impressions corre 

 sponded with my own. Tradition says that a colony of 

 Milesians formerly settled in this part of the country, and that 

 the remains of this race, or the offspring of the intermixture of 

 them with the native tribes, present these results. This is a 

 remarkable fact, and not without its bearing upon one great 

 branch of agricultural improvement. 



LIL SMITHFIELD, LONDON. 



The great market for cattle, in England, perhaps the greatest 

 in the world, is at Smithfield, in London. This market is prin 

 cipally for fat cattle and sheep, and for cows. It is held weekly, 

 in the centre, and in one of the most crowded parts, of this great 

 metropolis. Monday is the day of general sale for fat cattle and 

 sheep ; Tuesday for hay and straw ; Thursday is again a day of 

 sale for hay and straw ; and Friday for cattle, sheep, swine, and 

 particularly for the sale of milch cows, and at 2 o clock for scrub 

 horses and asses. This day is not so large a market as Monday, 

 and embraces the cattle that were left over on the Monday s 

 market. 



The market opens at daylight, at all seasons of the year, and 

 closes at 3 o clock in the afternoon, at which time every thing, 

 sold or unsold, must be removed. The sheep and swine are 

 enclosed in pens, railed in with wood, and containing seldom 

 more than fifteen sheep in a pen. The cattle, as far as the 



