34 AN AMERICAN FARMER IX EXGLAXD. 



in front, we could see, on the left, many tall chimneys and stee- 

 ples, and soon discerned forests of masts. On the right, the bank 

 .continued rural and charming, with all the fresh, light verdure 

 of spring. Below it we could distinctly see and quite amusing 

 it was many people, mostly women and children, riding donkeys 

 and driving pony-carriages on the beach. It seemed strange, in 

 our pleasure at seeing them, that they did not stop to look at us. 

 There were bathing- wagons, too, drawn by a horse out into three 

 or four feet water, and women floundering into it out of them, 

 and getting back again very hastily, as if they found it colder 

 than they had expected. We approached incomplete structures 

 of stone work along the water's edge, in which men and horses 

 were clustering like bees. Soon we passed them, and were look- 

 ing up at immense walls, each with its city of enclosed shipping 

 securely afloat fifteen or twenty feet higher than the water on 

 which we were, it being now low ebb. At five, in the rumble 

 and roar of the town, our anchor dropped. The ship could not 

 haul into the docks until midnight tide, and the steam-tug took 

 us, who wished it, to the shore, landing us across the Dublin 

 steamer at the Prince's Dock quay. 



