346 A Want of Wood greatly deplored. 



satisfaction of seeing here one of our coal ves- 

 sels : this brought home so pleasantly to my 

 recollection, that, notwithstanding all the delight 

 I had experienced, my long absence appeared 

 to be a great sacrifice. 



Near Dundrum is the residence of Mr. Morris, 

 who is an extensive farmer, and has some good 

 green crops. A want of wood is a defect which 

 always gives an appearance of the want of neigh- 

 bourhood and poverty to a country ; and in one 

 in which it thrives so luxuriantly, the regret 

 felt at its absence becomes greatly augmented. 

 The cabins here are miserable dwellings. In 

 districts where nature has been niggardly in the 

 dispensation of her bounties, poverty is endured 

 as an evil of necessity; but in one teeming with 

 abundance, the indigence of the people excites 

 a degree of uneasiness in the mind bordering on 

 indignation ; and the spectator is led to infer 

 that something must be wrong in the constitu- 

 tion of their social obligations. 



The Antrim mountains began to appear, and 

 the surface of the country was become greatly 

 diversified. 



Ballynahinch is finely situated. Mr. Carr, 



