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LETTER XVII. 



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Newton Limavady, Aug. 26, 1813. 



L HE proper hour for starting, indispensable 

 for comfortable travelling, ill accords with the 

 general habits of the country. The practice 

 of early rising, though so highly conducive to 

 health, is confined to few. On parting the pre- 

 ceding night, we took leave of our kind hosts, 

 though not without repeated solicitations to 

 visit them at Clonfeckle, near Moys, on our re- 

 turn northward ; when we should have an op- 

 portunity of beholding the child of favorite 

 adoption, fiorin, in full perfection ; and by 

 seeing hay-making in October, convince our- 

 selves that our friend's confederate, Boreas, was 

 as potent an ally in that month as is the sun 

 himself in June. 



In the distance of five miles from Port Rush to 

 Coleraine, there was little worthy of notice till 

 we reached the neighbourhood of the town, when 

 we lamented to see some admirable crops of 

 oats suffering materially by the absence of the 

 reapers. The situation of Coleraine, and the sur- 



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