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improved counties. I cannot give you an 

 idea of the effects of peat mosses and grassy 

 marshes on the water thrown down from the 

 atmosphere, better, than by comparing their 

 effects to those of roofs of houses of thatched 

 straw, as contrasted with roofs of slate, on a 

 shower of rain. The slate begins to drop 

 immediately, and sends down what it receives 

 in a rapid torrent, and is dry soon after the 

 shower is over. From the sponge-like roof 

 of thatch, on the contrary, it is long before 

 the water drops ; but it continues dropping 

 and wet for hours after the shower is over 

 and the slate dry. 



POIET. You spoke, just now, of the gilla- 

 roo trout, as belonging only to Ireland. I 



GILLAROO LOCH MELVIN. 



