188 Profitable Labor should be encouraged. 



of charity to flow ever so abundantly, though it 

 might produce some relief, it could effect no 

 remedy. The ability to give can, by no possi- 

 bility, be competent to supply the wants of a 

 nation of unemployed people. Giving would 

 but serve to aggravate the evil, which the power 

 of earning can only remove. Profitable labor 

 would soon teach knowledge knowledge would 

 multiply wants and these would instantly be 

 seen creating exertion, and inspiring a disposition 

 to economy and provident care : thus might 

 Lessenaugh be relieved from its distress, and all 

 Ireland be taught industry and contentment. 



Two miles beyond this miserable village, a 

 guide-post directed us to the Giant's Causeway. 

 The uncertainty of finding accommodations for 

 our horses decided us on dispatching them to 

 Bush Mills, at the distance of about a mile j and 

 we set off on foot for the Causeway. 



We had not proceeded far, before we were 

 saluted by half a dozen guides, all offering their 

 services. The difficulty of choice lay in whom 

 to refuse, where the claims of poverty seemed 

 so equally balanced. Two stout young men, in 

 yeomanry uniforms, were selected. How far 

 these military services are advantageous to the 

 country I know notj but that the volunteer 



