AN IKISH EXCUESION 33 
A few more passages may be quoted. 
Galway is a horrible town with 30,000 inhabitants, 
filthy in the extreme, without a single good building in it ; 
the whole neighbourhood is limestone, and the fields are 
all covered with large stones which are turned into walls 
of the worst description. 
Thursday, botanised about Cliffden, rained tremendously 
all day ; went to Mr. D'Arley's at CHffden Castle. Mr. D. 
is a very nice gentleman, hospitable in the extreme, who 
regretted his inability to take in our party of 12. He is 
tremendously in debt, but no creditor can go to the expense 
of arresting him, for the Connemara boys, with whom he 
is a great favorite, will allow no such intruder near Cliffden 
Castle. The last person who tried was an In^-keeper here, 
but the inhabitants, guessing -his intention, would not let 
his servant enter the village, but beat him unmercifully 
and sent him off. The police force were collected, who took 
them, and the malefactors are now lying in Galway jail for 
the next assizes. 
True to his careful upbringing, he is ever punctiHous in 
recording his Sunday observances. 
[At Galway] we went to Church twice, and I once to 
the Koman Cathohc chapel besides, with which I was much 
disgusted ; the gallery was well filled with respectable 
persons, but the body of the Church was crammed with 
inattentive hearers covered with rags or nearly naked. 
The English services were good, but the congregations 
wretched. [Next week, at Eallery] for some reason or 
other no service was performed, nor was there a Church 
nearer than 20 miles. 
It was not a very profitable excursion in its results, albeit 
he is most careful in his expenditure. 
I have regretted the expense, just £10, extremely, as 
except getting a good stock of th,e above-mentioned plants, 
nothing has been done but making as many sketches as I 
could by waiting behind the party ; these I have had no 
time to finish at all. Of plants I have about 8000 specimens, 
as far as I can count, all dried as well as I could ; this I say 
