10 Magnificent Style of Living. 



merchants are out of the city, where their 

 establishments are on a scale of great magni- 

 ficence. We had the pleasure of dining at Mr. 

 Crawford's seat, about four miles from Cork, on 

 the south side of the Lee, whence the prospects 

 are delightful ! 



Agriculture, it seems, has made greater pro- 

 gress in this county than in any other in Ire- 

 iand. I wish it had been possible for us to have 

 visited some of the most spirited improvers. 

 There are very large dairy farms in this neigh- 

 bourhood ; milk in the city is sold at three- 

 pence the quart. 



Morrison, speaking of Cork, says *' Touching 

 the Irish diet, some lords and knights, and 

 gentlemen of the English-Irish, and all the 

 English there abiding having competent means, 

 use the English diet, but some more, some less 

 cleanly, few or none curiously, and no doubt 

 they have as great, and for their part greater 

 plenty, than the English, of flesh, fowle,fish, and 

 all things for food, if they will use like art of 

 cookery always I except fruits, venison, and 

 some dainties proper to England, and some in 

 Ireland ; because they neither so generally af- 

 fect dainty food, nor so diligently search it as 

 the English do. Many of the English-Irish 



