98 HOPES OF THE LANDLORDS — TRALEE. 



form of some one in the group, whose smileless face 

 bespoke the famine through which they had all passed. 

 The desire for emigration, in this quarter, among the 

 labouring classes is universal ; and the sums of money 

 sent back by emigrants to their friends, show how 

 anxiously they urge them to follow. I was assured that 

 one person, who had gone out to New York only six 

 months ago, had already sent home to his friends £10, 

 which was received at the post-office the day before I 

 passed through Tarbert. The people look to America 

 as their home — Ireland as no longer theirs. 



Conversing with a land-agent I met at Tralee, I find 

 that many landlords here are looking to the revival of 

 the potato as their chief hope of better times. They 

 are willing to reduce rents fifty per cent, and bear a 

 proportion of rates, but only for a time, till the crisis is 

 got over. 



Tralee is a good town, with considerable trade, and 

 several handsome streets. It is connected with the sea 

 by a ship-canal, about a couple of miles in length. The 

 surrounding country is low-lying and fertile. To the 

 south it is wooded, and interspersed with villas, the 

 view from which to the sea, and the magnificent moun- 

 tain range to the west, running up from the water 

 nearly 3000 feet high, is very fine. From the 

 canal the land rises in gentle slopes, laid out in good- 

 sized fields of excellent soil. For several miles along 

 the coast the land is very superior, and great quantities 

 of sea- weed and calcareous sand are found on it. The 

 good quality of the land, and the command of sea- 

 weed, &c, enable the tenants to get on better here than 



