Objects in visiting Ireland. 9 



amusement, though it will serve to associate our 

 minds for an hour in each day, by a conference 

 of the heart. You will determine how far you 

 may feel disposed to sacrifice so much time and 

 patience as the perusal of such a diary may de- 

 mand. There are but few, a happy enviable 

 few, who, like yourself, see all things through a 

 correct medium : confident of this, I shall 

 cheerfully submit to your deliberate, your tem- 

 perate animadversions on my natural enthusiasm, 

 and rely on your affectionate friendship for veil- 

 ing the inaccuracy of my judgment. Herein, I 

 feel conscious, I may fail ; but it is impossible I 

 should do so, in my regard, respect, and esteem, 

 and my earnest desire to contribute to your en- 

 tertainment. 



The trivial mortifications inseparable from the 

 absence of those comforts and accommodations 

 which pervade countries more frequently vi- 

 sited, will neither affect my companion nor 

 myself. We have made up our minds to take 

 " things as they are, not as they ought to be,'* 

 and on all occasions to pity and smile, rather 

 than reprove and be vexed. 



Short as the interval is which has elapsed 

 since I bade you farewell, it appears to me long 

 when I retrace the various reflections to which 



