SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLAND. 619 



munificence of its parliament, I made a circuitous 



. ii, 



! hiblin and ih of Ireland, the 



feat of the Irifh 



Dublin in the fpace o: 



or ii years, the elegance of ihc new r -iic 



gnificencc and folidity of tiic pub) 



or now , a Itran 



itntcd with the j :tacc of Europe, would 



hkic t! -. as the metropolis ot a mighty 



kingdom, who . were bo : that 



i he Greeks and Romans had 

 to enliven and ornament 

 the A 



The country fm oghcda, (24 miles) 



and from thence to Dundalk, (16 miles) confiils 

 chiefly of gentle rifinp onlhire, and pro- 



duces '. A 1 inclofing v. 



hedge-: >w become faihiou- 



ablc in Ireland, but it hath no: ycc become gene 

 in this ;dom. 



The major! ople as far as Dundalk, arc 



of the r >n, and feemvery poor. From 



Dundalk nort ^ greatly 



iter. In this extenfivc diltrict, ufually 



ed the North of Ireland, the people arc moflly 



of Scots d. nduftrious, < ling, and mer- 



tile. The inclofu: numerous, the country 



b 1. ; nproved, and the inhabitints are co 



fortably lodged in neat TIC. 



.s hardly nrcefiary to obfrrvt-, th.it this is the : 

 of the great linen manufa Dcfides I , of 



I was informed by an inhabitant of Drogheib, that the ex* 

 porti of grain and meal from that port : 

 upon an average of 7 yean, to ioo,oool. annually. He (aid that 

 the millers had loll the ma:. >r grinding the oati ot late 



yean, through their own ava;. c pnBtice oi naming 



! and lime \\tth the meal, iuld there by weight; which 

 . v Lul iuduccd ihc j purchak grain inftead of 



other 



