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preferred before the English), and shell-fish, 

 with all other kinds of sea-fish ; so as the Irish 

 might in all parts have abundance of excellent 

 sea and fresh- water fish ; if the fishe-men were 

 not so possessed with the natural fault of sloth- 

 fulness : as no hope of gaine, scarcely the 

 power of authoritie, can in many places make 

 them come out of their houses to put to sea. 

 Hence it is that in many places they use Scots 

 for fishe-men ; and they, together with the Eng- 

 lish, make profit of the inhabitants' sluggish- 

 nesse ; and no doubt, if the Irish men were 

 industrious in fishing, they might export salt 

 and dried fish with great gaine." 



The barracks, which are also on the banks of 

 the river, are extensive. There is something, 

 however, painful to reflecting minds, in the un- 

 ceasing presence of a military force. Scarcely 

 a village is entered without a detachment being 

 obtruded on the traveller. For the tranquil 

 possession of our own, or when justifiable reta- 

 liation requires us to enter on foreign countries, 

 armies no doubt, to a certain extent, are neces- 

 sary ; but when they are spread over the face of 

 a nation, for the purpose of executing the laws, 

 or of protecting or enforcing the payment of 

 revenues, the laurels thus acquired must be 



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