Interior of a Cottier's Cabin. US 



former, the inventory is limited to one, and 

 sometimes two beds, serving for the repose of 

 the whole family ! However downy these may 

 be to limbs impatient for rest, their coverings 

 appeared to be very slight, and the whole of 

 the apartment created reflections of a very pain- 

 ful nature. Under such privations, with a wet 

 mud floor, and a roof in tatters, how idle the 

 search for comforts! 



T i L::r, <f! ! 

 It is not from cold and wet alone that a being 



who possesses reflection, as well as corporeal 

 feelings, must suffer. Can it be matter of 

 wonder that the innate sense of female delicacy 

 should be stifled or destroyed, while in the 

 other sex the natural aversion to unseemly 

 habits should by degrees become lessened, and 

 even familiarized? Certainly not. The only 

 wonder is, that the demoralizing influence of 

 such wretchedness on the Irish character, has 

 not long ago been found to be more general 

 and pernicious. 



The sufferings from hunger are neither felt 

 nor dreaded j nor can the dainties of the opu- 

 lent epicure, partaken with equivocal hunger, 

 be compared with the Irishman's potatoe, and 

 his honest appetite ! 



VOL. I. I 



