24C Lord Sunderlin's Park, 



ron's Court, over a soil of sharp gravel. We 

 passed an estate on which we observed several 

 new farm-houses, with the necessary appendant 

 buildings for enabling the occupiers to conduct 

 their business with profit and regularity. Till 

 the fanner is duly supplied with barns and sheds 

 for his cattle, his attempting the growth of 

 green crops, or to increase the quantity of his 

 manure, would be unavailing. 



Lord Sunderlin's park, two miles from Baron's 

 Court, is a very pretty piece of ground, its sur- 

 face being very agreeably unequal, and orna- 

 mented with some fine timber and beautiful 

 thorns. The Grand Canal from Dublin passes 

 by the park walls. The inland traffic in most 

 parts of Ireland is insufficient at present to ren- 

 der canals a lucrative investment ; large sums 

 have, however, been voted in aid of such under- 

 takings in various parts of Ireland ; and I trust 

 the time is not very remote when these patriotic 

 designs will answer the promised object of the 

 original projectors. Many people were em- 

 ployed in extending the cut with the lay, at 

 which I was somewhatsurprised ; but on inquiry, 

 found their spades had not arrived, and that 

 the lay was used only to mark out the line : the 

 laborers were unanimous in allowing the Eng- 

 lish spade to be the superior implement. 



