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LETTER XXXIX. 



Waterford, Sept. 16, 1813. 



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?VE were ready with the first dawn of day 

 to quit Dungarvon, where neither rest nor 

 refreshment was to be obtained. Though not 

 much disposed to be in humour with the town, 

 the harbour had claims on our attention. 

 It is very spacious, and apparently very con- 

 venient for trade. Land near the borough lets 

 for five pounds, that in the vale for three pounds 

 per acre. The tithes of some of the parishes 

 through which we passed were divided between 

 ecclesiastic and lay impropriators. 



At the distance of about five miles from 

 Dungarvon we left the vale, and ascended a 

 ridge of hills of considerable height, which we 

 crossed. The whole country, through which 

 our road lay for above twenty miles, was hilly ; 

 the soil but indifferent, and the cultivation of 

 it worse. The population is not so redundant, 

 yet the cottages are as poor as in most parts of 

 Ireland. We stopped to breakfast at a half-way 



