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much towards influencing and disposing the 

 people to what is fit and right to be done ! 



From Granard we had four miles to Edge- 

 worth's town ; the country was quite flat, and to 

 the southward there appeared a great extent of 

 bog. The steeple at Edgeworth's town attracts 

 notice at a great distance : the general want of 

 these indications of places of worship is, to an 

 eye habituated to their presence, a great draw- 

 back from the beauty of the country ; it may be 

 prejudice, but the spire or tower of the parish 

 church give* great interest, in my opinion, to 

 every landscape. 



The immediate neighbourhood of Edge- 

 worth's town has little beauty to attract atten- 

 tion ; but the respect which talent inspires 

 communicates a charm to the spot, which com- 

 pensates for other disadvantages. Adieu. 



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