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and bog. I was unfortunate in not having 

 feen Sir John's feat, near Corke, for there he 

 is at work upon 1000 acres of mountain, and 

 making very great improvements, in whi'ch, 

 among other circumflances, he works his bul- 

 locks by the horns. 



September 25th, took the road to Nedeen, 

 through the wildeft region of mountains that I 

 remember to have feen j it is a dreary, but an 

 interefling road. The various horrid, gro- 

 tefque and unufual forms in which the moun- 

 tains rife, and the rocks bulge ; the immenfe 

 height of fome diftant heads, which rear above 

 all the nearer fcenes, the torrents roaring in 

 the vales, and breaking down the mountain 

 fides, with here and there a wretched cabbin, 

 and a fpot of culture yielding furprife to find 

 human beings the inhabitants of fuch a fcene 

 of wildnefs, altogether keep the traveller's mind 

 in an agitation and fufpence. Thefe rocks and 

 mountains are many of them no otherwife im- 

 provable than by planting, for which, howe- 

 ver, they are exceedingly well adapted. 



Sir John was fo obliging as to fend half a 

 dozen labourers with me, to help my chaife 

 up a mountain fide, of which he gave a formi- 

 dable account : in truth it deferved it. The 

 road leads directly againft a mountain rklge, 

 and thofe who made it were fo incredibly flu- 

 pid, that they kept the (trait line up the hill, 

 inftead of turning aficle to the right, to wind 

 around a projection of it. The path of the 

 F 2 road 



