4 Beautiful Banks of the Lee. 



pressive, and calculated to produce and per- 

 petuate the very evils her measures were in- 

 tended to remove. 



Bally Colleck, six miles from Cork, is a great 

 ordnance depot, where immense sums have been 

 expended in erections possessing much show 

 and extent. Considerable lime-works are car- 

 ried on in this neighbourhood. We had a de- 

 lightful drive from Bally Colleck : the banks of 

 the Lee are highly beautiful embellished with 

 numerous residences ; and the opposite side pre- 

 sented a great diversity of charming objects. 

 Two miles from Cork, we stopped at a farm for 

 the purpose of inspecting as foul a piece of stub- 

 ble as I ever beheld, which the farmer was then 

 sowing down with hay seeds ; and being ex- 

 tremely proud of his own performance, was not 

 a little astonished at my want of perception in 

 not complimenting his husbandry. In the vici- 

 nity of Cork lands let so extravagantly, I was 

 led to expect better practices j for, in its imme- 

 diate neighbourhood, no less than ten pounds an 

 acre are paid ; but at a little distance the same 

 quality of land may be had at less than half that 

 money. 



The last mile of the road, through the Irish 

 Town, is so execrably bad as to render it dan- 



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