24 Beautiful Banks oj the Black Water. 



landed proprietors in Ireland, as an example 

 worthy of imitation, and of what is capable of 

 being done towards an augmentation of national 

 consequence, and the comforts to which the 

 lower orders of the people are so justly entitled. 

 Contrasting the state of their idle, wretched te- 

 nantry, with that of the industrious and respect- 

 able inhabitants of Fermoy, could not fail of 

 awakening their attention, not only to their own 

 individual interest, but to the general welfare of 

 the community. 



Mr. M'Cassel, whose residence is near Fer- 

 moy, has the reputation of being a good farmer. 

 Lord Riversdale has made great improvements 

 at Ilathcormack, and has extensively adopted 

 the system of green crops. We did not ob- 

 serve a single field of clover in the course of 

 the fifteen miles between Cork and Fermoy 

 the cultivation of the potatoes was all in lazy 

 beds. 



The banks of the Black Water are very beau- 

 tiful : the southern side, on which we travelled 

 from Fermoy, is flat, the northern bold; both 

 crowded with cottages. The hedges are formed 

 principally of white-thorn, and thickly planted 

 with timber. We were gratified with the ap- 

 pearance of much wood in various parts of our 



