188 Improved Appearance about Cavan. 



tion a part of what is given in augmentation of 

 small livings. 



Every proprietor seems ambitious to have a 

 town on his estate. I cannot but question the 

 policy as well as propriety of collecting numbers 

 of people together, in places which afford no 

 present employment, and offer no facilities for 

 the establishment of manufactories on a future 

 occasion. A very few individuals are sufficient 

 for all the present purposes of agriculture ; and 

 where there is no trade, every supernumerary 

 must become a dead weight on the industry of 

 those who are occupied. Such improvements 

 can alone be valuable, which increase the em- 

 ployment of the working classes, and will be 

 immediately or prospectively beneficial to those 

 who thus spiritedly embark their time and ca- 

 pital. 



As we approached Cavan the country im- 

 proved : those delightful undulations which 

 contribute so much to the beauty of Irish 

 landscape were here very prominent features. 



Cavan is a small, neat town ; and from the 

 number of new buildings, seems to be in a state 

 of progressive improvement. The church is 

 repairing, and a large and convenient gaol has 



