CHAPTER III. 



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: Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair 

 As ever recompensed the peasant's care, 

 Can call up life into his faded eye, 

 That passes all he sees unheeded by ; 

 No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels, 

 No cure for such, till God who makes them heals." 



— William Cowper. 



" A lively curiosity is, in common circumstances, our prevalent feel- 

 ing when we first approach countries which, however near to our own, 

 may in some sense be termed another earth. A new language shouted 

 by sailors, lisped by children, appearing in every kind of public inscrip- 

 tion, with a change in dresses, countenances, vehicles, buildings, and all 

 the variety of lesser objects, produce an impression which perhaps a 

 Hibernian islander might state most forcibly by saying, ' You can't land 

 twice for the first time.' " — John Sheppard. 



