TAVERNS. 
making the greatest improvements * in the 
country. 
Every ten or twelve miles upon this road 
there are taverns, which are all built of wood, 
and much in the same style, with a porch in 
front the entire length of the house. Few of 
these taverns have any signs, and they are 
only to be distinguished from the other houses 
by the number of handbills pasted up on the 
walls near the door. They take their name, 
not from the sign, but from the person who 
keeps them, as Jones’s, Brown’s, &c. &c. All 
of them are kept nearly in the same manner. 
At each house there are regular hours for 
breakfast, dinner, and supper, and if a traveller 
arrives somewhat before the time appointed for 
any one of these, it is in- vain to call for a se¬ 
parate meal for himself; he must wait pa¬ 
tiently till the appointed hour, and then sit 
down with the other guests that may happen 
to be in the house. Breakfasts are generally 
plentifully served ; there is tea/ coffee, and 
different sorts of bread, cold salt meat, and 
very commonly besides, beef steaks, fried 
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* I have heard of Americans landing on barren parts of 
the north-west coast of Ireland, and evincing the greatest 
surprise and pleasure at the beauty and improved state of the 
country, cf so clear of trees !!” 
