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but as the outsides of the houses are white- 

 washed, a cheerful appearance is produced. A 

 new market-house is building. The approach to 

 the port has so little depth of water that the 

 harbour can only be entered by small vessels ; 

 the passage and the export of cattle and horses 

 to England constitute its chief trade; and 

 from what we could learn the place was in a 

 thriving condition. 



IN* *H -no ,..f?or*f>q mni) 

 The Copeland Isles form the northernmost 

 boundary of Belfast Bay, upon one of which a 

 new light-house is erecting on an improved 

 construction. The Antrim mountains have a 

 very bold appearance on the opposite side of 

 the bay, 



At the upper end of the town is a considera- 

 ble rath, or circular elevation of earth, frequent 

 in Ireland : whether the original application of 

 these was to religious or civil purposes is now 

 unknown. 



" The rath, or hill, is used here to parlie (as 

 they say) about matters and wrongs between 

 one township and another. The Talkrates were 

 built by the Saxons, as the word bewearith; for 

 it signifies in the Saxon a meeting of the talk, 

 and these are, in most part, in form four/- 



