102 Raths and Round Towers. 



square well entrenched. The others that were 

 round were cast up by the Danes, as the name 

 of them doth betoken; for they are called Danes 

 Rathes, that is hills of the Danes, and ap- 

 pointed as was by them desired, not for treaties 

 or parlies, but operated as forts. The first in. 

 vasion of Oostmans or Danes was in 795." 



The rath is capable of containing one hun- 

 dred persons on its summit, which is about 

 sixty or seventy feet high, whence a very fine 

 view is obtained of the neighbouring country. 

 The northern invaders certainly inflicted great 

 sufferings on the conquered ; yet it was these 

 intruders who first planted the germs of inde- 

 pendence in our happy soil, which in the pro- 

 gressive course of time have happily produced 

 our love of liberty and our glorious constitution. 



On our way back to the inn through the 

 poorest part of the town, we were forcibly 

 struck with notifications to the following effect 

 at the doors of some of the cabins : " Dry 

 Lodgings." " God help the poor souls," we 

 exclaimed, " can it be necessary to apprize 

 travellers that under those roofs they would be 

 protected from the inclemency of the weather?" 



We were, however, not long before we dis- 



