The Irish a most pleasing Peasantry. Ill 



artificial wants, and a grateful appreciation of 

 the three natural ones, food raiment and 

 shelter, in which, though humbly, they appa- 

 rently luxuriated. 



Even among the most retired rustics we ob- 

 served indications of considerable intelligence, 

 attended by an uniform and almost officious 

 civility, which entitles them to be considered, 

 if not the most estimable, certainly the most 

 pleasing peasantry in Europe. They approach 

 strangers without reserve converse with great 

 freedom, and with frankness and pleasure 

 communicate their circumscribed knowledge; 

 for which, in return, they expect their curiosity 

 should be satisfied, as to the objects which may 

 have induced the presence of unknown persons 

 among them. 



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On our visits to several of their cabins, I 



became taught that there existed gradations; 

 and possibly as many in the scale of necessity 

 as in that of superfluity. 



In human abodes, where the presence of a 

 chimney is an acknowledged luxury, the ab- 

 s^nce of all other necessary appendages to such 

 a residence, which according to our ideas of 

 household conveniences are required to make 



