292 Description of Collon. 



in exhibiting the advantages of a good system 

 of cultivation on any spot, where it had been 

 practicable. As a planter, he is eminently dis- 

 tinguished j for, in spite of the sterility of the 

 soil, the elevated situation of Collon, and its 

 uninterrupted exposure to the winds from the 

 sea, his plantations grow v^ry luxuriantly. 



Collon, a remarkably neat village, was en- 

 tirely built by Mr. Foster ; the cabins are very 

 tidy, the walls white-washed, and the roofs co- 

 vered with Welsh slate. The church is an ex- 

 tremely handsome building, with a tower of very 

 chaste Gothic. Dr. Beaufort, who was the ar- 

 chitect, is now engaged in fitting up the in- 

 terior, which will be no less elegant than appro- 

 priate. At a short distance from the church is 

 a very good parsonage house. A cotton ma- 

 nufactory furnishes employment to many of the 

 inhabitants within its w^alls, and to others who 

 weave in their own houses ; besides which, a 

 Lancastrian school and a dispensary are also 

 established in the village. 



Our first object of attention before we rode 

 through the plantations and over the farm, 

 this morning, was the nursery ; which was 

 formerly a greater curiosity than at present, as 

 it was one of the first in Ireland. Mr. Foster 



