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covered that these intimations were for lodgings* 

 without victuals or drink a house without a 

 license which received travellers. This was a 

 salutary hint against forming hasty conclusions 

 in a perfectly new country. 



The arrangements of the packets are so good, 

 we had no cause to complain of any attempt to 

 extort. " Cheap and dirty," was the character 

 given by some one of his quarters. This short 

 but comprehensive description conveys a cor- 

 rect idea of Donaghadee. 



From what we had seen we were disposed to 

 entertain a very favourable opinion of the 

 country. 



The county of Down is much diversified with 

 hill and dale ; so great is the variety of inde- 

 pendent hills of nearly the same altitude, form- 

 ing no chain, nor having any determinate direc- 

 tion, that it has not been unaptly compared to 

 a surface of eggs. 



The land, for the four miles to Bangor, ap* 

 peared to be strong; the crops of grain and pota- 

 toes looked well : but it was sufficiently evident 

 that their good appearance was more ascribable 

 to the natural fertilitv of the soil, than to the 



