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immediately, as the wind was fair, but I foon 

 found the difference of thefe private veflels 

 and the pod office pacquets at Holyhead and 

 Dublin. When the wind was fair the tide 

 was foul : and when the tide was with them, 

 the wind would not dp; in Englifh there was 

 not a complement of pafTengers, and fo I had 

 the agreeablenefs of xvaiting with my horfes in 

 the hold, by way of reft, after a journey of 

 above 1560 miles. 



October iSth. after a beaftly night pafled 

 on fhip board, and finding no figns of depar- 

 ture, walked to Bally'canvan, the feat of Cor- 

 nelius Bolton, Efq; rode with Mr. Bolton, 

 jiin. to Faithleghill, which commands one of 

 the fineft views I have feen in Ireland. There 

 is a rock on the top of a hill, which has a ve- 

 ry bold vievy on every fide down on a great 

 extent of country, much of which is grafs in- 

 clofures of a good verdure. This hill is the 

 center of a circle of about ten miles diameter, 

 beyond which higher lands rife, which after 

 Jp reading' to a great extent, have on every 

 fide a back ground of mountain : in a norther- 

 ly direction, mount Leinfter, between Wex- 

 ford and Wieklow, twenty- fix miles off, rifes 

 in feveral heads, far above the clouds. A lit- 

 tle to the right of this, Sliakeiltha f z. e. the 

 woody mountain) at a lefs diftance, is a fine 

 objecl:. To the left, Tory hill, only five 

 miles, in a regular form varies the out-line. 

 To the eaft, there is the long mountain, eigh- 

 teen miles diftant, and feveral lefier Wexford 



hills. 



