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the shovel. This practice may be valuable 

 where the soil is shallow, as it affords the seed a 

 better covering ; but I understood it was done 

 at the costly expense of twenty shillings an acre. 



As we left Virginia we met the catholic 

 Bishop of Meath coming into the town ; and 

 notwithstanding the road was extremely wet and 

 dirty, every catholic, of either sex, bent the 

 knee* and implored his blessing. He was going 

 to consecrate a chapel in the neighbourhood, 

 and was to confirm afterwards the numbers \\ e 

 met in the road to attend him. 



We had thirteen miles to Cavan : the first 

 part of the road was mountainous, the soil poor, 

 and very ill cultivated. Lord Farnham has 

 here a park, containing some hundred acres, in 

 the wildest part of the country: it does not 

 possess a tree or any other shelter for the deer. 

 Were this country well planted, it would have 

 a very different appearance. The fences are 

 miserable, and every object proclaims the po- 

 verty of the inhabitants. 



We overtook a Methodist preacher who is 

 settled at Bolen, a small village about mid-way 

 to Cavan. Mr. Cummins, the landlord, has re- 

 built a considerable part of the place, and the 



