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finale circumftance hurts the principal cha- 

 racter. In a hollow formed of rock and wood 

 (every objeft excluded but thofe and water) the 

 torrent breaks forth from fragments of rock, 

 and tumbles through the chafm, rocks bul- 

 ging over it, as if ready to fall into the chan- 

 nel, and flop the impetuous water. The 

 fhade is fo thick as to exclude the heavens, all 

 is retired and gloomy, a brown horror breath- 

 ing over the whole. It is a fpot for melan- 

 choly to mufe in. 



Return to the carriage, and quit the Dargle, 

 which upon the whole is a very Angular place, 

 different from all I have feen in England, and, 

 I think, preferable to moil. Cro'fs a mur- 

 muring ftream clear as chryital, and riling a 

 hill, look back on a pleafing landfcape of in- 

 clofures, which waving over hills, end in 

 mountains of a very noble character. Reach 

 Dublin. 



July 1 8th, once more to Lord Harcourt's at 

 St. Woolftan's, where I was fo fortunate as 

 to meet Colonel Burton : he gave me a frefb 

 packet of recommendations into the north of 

 Ireland, and taking my leave of his excel- 

 lency, paffed Manooth to Kilrue. From Cell- 

 bridge to Manooth is a line of very fine corn. 

 Paffed Dunboyne, from thence to Kilrue ; the 

 foil is clay, flat and ftrong, and I obferved 

 much hollow draining going on, with very 

 fine crops of wheat and oats. The land about 

 Mr. Jones is very fine rich ftrong loam, called 

 here clay. 



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