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informed, had come with their webs of Knen 

 cloth for sale, more than twenty miles, and 

 were going back again, as joyous and alert as if 

 their journey had but then commenced. The 

 Irish in general are good walkers, and are able 

 to endure much fatigue. As it is seldom that 

 Moryson, whom I have before had occasion to 

 quote, does not discover a most unjustifiable 

 prejudice against the Irish, his testimony be- 

 comes doubly valuable when he speaks in their 

 favor. " I have heard," says he, " some great 

 warriors say, that in all the services which they 

 had seen abroad in foreign countries, they never 

 saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor 

 one who cometh on more bravely to his charge." 



Their buoyancy of spirits makes light of suf- 

 ferings which would sink many other people. 

 This was exhibited in the general mirth the 

 joking and good humor, that prevailed among 

 them : ridicule, without offence, is the forte of an 

 Hibernian. Maria Theresa used to say, when 

 complaints were made of the irregularities of the 

 Irish in her service, that she " wished she could 

 keep them shut up in a band-box till the eve of 

 battle." 



The Moravian village contains about four hun- 

 dred persons of both sexes : it consists of four 



