LETTER XL. 



Kilkenny, Sept. 18, 1813. 



1 HE beauty of its situation, together with 

 the bustle and active exertions diplayed at 

 Waterford, impressed us highly in its favor. The 

 national union has proved very beneficial to its 

 commerce, which has greatly increased of late 

 years. Unquestionably a participation in the 

 general trade of England, must eventually 

 contribute greatly to the prosperity of Ireland. 







The difficulty and delay of ferrying over* 

 deterred us from crossing the Suir, though, by 

 so doing, we should have saved six miles in our 

 journey to the Royal Oak. The wooden bridge 

 of Waterford is little inferior to that at Derry. 

 Much of the country to Knocktopher is very 

 poor, and but thinly inhabited. At a small 

 village, about a mile from Knocktopher, we 

 observed, in the church-yard, a rookery, which 

 was the first we had seen in Ireland ; elsewhere 

 it might have proved a nuisance j here, most 

 probably, it little interfered with the devotions 

 of the parishioner*. 



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