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ance. Our walk up afforded us an opportunity 

 of conversing with many of the people who 

 were returning from the market at Belfast. I 

 was most agreeably impressed with the sobriety, 

 regularity, and order, of those we had met in 

 the morning ; but was still more so on the pre- 

 sent occasion, when the lateness of the hour 

 might have accounted for, if it did not excuse, 

 the appearance of inebriety, which was exhi- 

 bited in one solitary instance only. 



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The care and attention paid to this helpless 

 intoxicated individual by his neighbours, in- 

 spired us with a high opinion of their humanity 

 and good nature. How different was this spe- 

 cimen of fellow-feeling, and social regard, to 

 that which my mind was prepared to meet, from 

 the accounts so generally circulated to the dis- 

 advantage of the people of Ireland. 



On our gaining the summit of the mountain 

 a great diversity of scenery was presented 5 and 

 as the sun was setting, it contributed, in a high 

 degree, to the clear and distinct view which 

 our situation afforded us of Lough Neagh ; au 

 immense expanse of water, in the midst of a 

 plain, circumscribed by a ridge, formed of the 

 lofty mountains of Down, Armagh, Antrim, 

 Tyrone, and Londonderry. Undoubtedly the 



