Extract from Morrison on Irish Die/. 1 1 



have little and little been infected with Irish 

 tilthincss, and that in the very cities, excepting 

 Dublin, and some of the better sort in Water- 

 ford, where the English continually lodging in 

 their houses use the English diet. The Eng- 

 lish-Irish, after our manner, serve to their 

 dinners joints of flesh cut to our fashion, with 

 geese, pullets, pigs, and the like roasted meats. 

 But their ordinary food for the common sort is 

 of white meats ; and they eat cakes of oates for 

 bread, and drinke beer made of malt and hops." 



There is a nunnery here of some extent, and 

 of consequence sufficient to entitle it to the 

 notice of strangers. The river Lee to the Cove 

 of Cork is highly interesting the scenery rich 

 and picturesque. We lamented the unfavour- 

 able state of the weather, as it prevented us 

 from any further survey of its banks. 



Party animosities here are carried to a great 

 height private comfort and public prosperity 

 are always sacrificed to these unfortunate local 

 misunderstandings, which are greatly promoted 

 by the mutual desire that each party fosters to 

 avoid personal conferences with each other, 

 and to prefer the insinuations and misrepresen- 

 tations of interested, invidious characters. 



