1 60 Presbyterians more opulent than Catholics. 



I to close these animadversions without express- 

 ing how much I feel the culpability of those 

 individuals who, in disregarding the violation 

 of it in themselves, compel the irreverence and 

 profanation of it also in their dependants. By 

 those who are the arbiters of their own time 

 who labor not to live to whom the indulgence 

 of rest becomes slavery- the gratification of 

 pleasure satiety, and with whom every pursuit 

 appals ! what excuse can be urged what plea 

 sufficient to insure a verdict of not guilty ? 



The Presbyterians appear to be more opulent 

 than the Roman Catholics, if the respectability 

 of their dress and habitations may be admitted 

 as a fair criterion by which the judgment may 

 be directed ; they seem also a very orderly and 

 regular set of people. In consequence of their 

 chapel being under repair a large congregation 

 was assembled in the burial-ground attached to 

 it, whom we saw pursuing their devotions re- 

 gardless of a heavy shower of rain which was 

 falling at the moment we passed. 



The distance from Balla Mona to this place is 

 twelve miles, over an elevated ridge between 

 two extensive plains, of which the bog of 

 Culdee forms a very considerable part. No 

 reason appears for its remaining in its present 



