100 Origin of the Name of Ireland. 



in the very presence of those who have caused 

 the bribes to be accepted by their voters, this 

 solemn appeal to Heaven is made and heard 

 without remorse ; knowing at the time of the 

 bribery the awful predicament in which such 

 parties would be placed on the day of election, 

 and being perfectly indifferent to their eternal 

 happiness on the day of judgment. 



" On the origin of the name of Ireland many 

 different opinions have been maintained some 

 have contended it to be derived ab hiberno 

 tempore others from Iberus, a Spaniard ; from 

 the river Iber and the author of the Eulogium, 

 from a Captain, called " Irnalph." If the ori- 

 ginal is to be traced by the Irish name Erin 

 only, I am at a loss ; nor can I tell what to 

 think of the matter, unless it might perhaps 

 come from Hiere, an Irish word signifying the 

 west, or a tract westward ; and so Erin may imr 

 port as much as west country, and be derived 

 from thence." * 



We found Donaghadee to be situated on the 

 north-east coast, about fifteen miles from Belfast: 

 it naturally excited a degree of interest, infi- 

 nitely beyond what it was entitled to, on any 

 other grouhd than that of its being our first 

 resting place in Ireland. The town is small, 



* Cambden. 



