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amusements, as tend to raise him in the scale of 

 being, and make him better and happier. 



AMICUS. On a second visit to Donegal, at- 

 tracted there again by the pleasure I had in my 

 first, that made in your company, spending 

 the Sunday at Gweedore, and abstaining from 

 angling, I went to the Catholic chapel, about 

 five miles from the hotel, situated in a wild 

 spot, a desert of sand and bog ; the sand hills 

 skirting the sea, the bog constituting the land. 

 There I witnessed an interesting scene ; some 

 hundreds of people collected from all the 

 country round, all neatly and cleanly dressed, 

 and orderly behaved ; some arriving on horse- 

 back, man and wife on the same horse, he in 

 the saddle or pad, she behind holding by him, 

 seated on the crupper, but more on foot, the 

 men commonly walking apart and so the wo- 

 men, and the latter, whether married or single, 

 distinguishable, the former wearing a cap, the 

 latter their heads naked, their hair neatly and 

 becomingly parted and plaited. The form of ser- 

 vice was that of the mass, high mass, and was per- 

 formed with all its due rites, and attended to on 

 the part of the people with all due reverence. 

 Indeed, the ceremony in its forms and effects 



