46 CASTLE MARTYR. 



merit of the madonna Delia Sedia of Raphael, 

 at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, by Stirn, a 

 German, lately at Rome. Another of an holy 

 family, from Raphael, of which there are faid 

 to be three originals, one at the king's palace 

 in Naples, one in the palais royal in Paris, and 

 the third in the collection of Lord Exeter, lately 

 purchafed at Rome. A portrait of Sir Patrick 

 Trent, by Sir P. Lely. An excellent portrait 

 of a perfon unknown, by Dahl. 



September i/th, toCaftlemartyr, the feat of 

 the earl of Shannon, one of the moft diftin- 

 guifhed improvers in Ireland, in whom I found 

 the moft earneft defire to give me every fpecies 

 of information, with a knowledge and ability 

 which enabled him to do it moft effectually. 

 PafTed through Middleton, a well built place, 

 which belongs to the noble lord to whom it 

 gives title. Caftiemartyr is an o-ld houfe, but 

 much added to by the prefent earl; he has 

 built, befides other rooms, a dining one 32 feet 

 long by 22 broad, and a drawing one, the beft 

 rooms I have feen in Ireland, a double cube of 

 25 feet, being 50 long, 25 broad, and 25 high* 

 The grounds about the houfe are very well 

 laid out} much wood well grown, confiderable 

 lawns, a river made to wind through them in 

 a beautiful manner, an old caftle fo perfectly 

 covered with ivy as to be a picturefque object. 

 A winding walk leads for a confiderable diftance 

 along the banks of this river, and prefents fe- 

 veral pleafing landfcapes. But let me haften to 

 objects of more importance: Lord Shannon's 



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