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previous attention will be fufficient, as the 
rejeéted books muft have been perufed by 
the members.who vote againft them, and 
a large proportion of thefe members mutt 
agree in opinion before the rejection can 
take place. 
In hopes of feeing thefe hints in your” 
next Magazine, [ remain, fir, 
Your conftant reader, 
LIBER. 
—— 
To the Editor of the Monibly Magazine. 
SIR, 
i WILL thank any of your philofoshi- 
éal correfpondents for afolution of the 
following problem : ; 
Place two veffels of cqual capacity, one 
on the ground, and another elevated 
thirty feet in the air, during a fhower of 
rain ; ,when it is over, the veffel on the 
ground will be found to contain nearly a 
third more in quantity of water than 
the other. The fact has been afcertain- 
ed by numerous experiments, but never 
fatisfa€torily explained. B. 
= eee STEIN ee —— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
A Tour From Lonvon To Dus- 
LIN AND SOME OTHER PirTs OF 
IRELAND; VIZ. THE COUNTIES 
OF KILDARE AND WICKLOW, 
MADE {N THE SUMMER OF 1797. 
MR. EDITOR, 
M* prefent intention is to give (through 
the medium of the Monthly Maga- 
zine) an impartial view of {ome parts of . 
Ireland in its prefent ftate, which I hope 
will not prove unentertaining or altoge- 
ther unworthy the attention of your nu- 
merous readers ; and as a defcription. of 
thofe parts of drefand which I fhall men- 
tion is my fole obj. é, I fhall not .¢well 
upon {uch parts of England and Wales as 
I pais through on my route, but notice 
them fo far only as they are fubfervient 
to the defign of this paper. 
From London then,through Kew,Rich- 
mond, Staines, Windfor, Henley-upon- 
Thames, Oxford, and Blenheim, I pro- 
ceeded to Shrewfbury. Thence I di- 
reéted my courfe through thole beautiful 
parts of North Wales, Llangollen, 
Llanwft, Conway, Bangor, and Bangor 
Ferry, as far asto Holy-head, where I 
embarked on board one of his majefty’s 
packets for Dublin. This veffel fets fail 
every evening (Tuefday excepted) as foon 
after the arrival of the Ivifth mail from 
London (which is generally about fix 
o’clock in the evening) as the tide will 
permit. 
MontHry MaG, XXVII. 
Problem. Tour in Irelands 
17 
The diftance from the fhore whence 
you embark to that on which you land is 
about twenty leagues, and the paffage, 
which isa very fafe one, varies of courfe 
in point of time, according to a favourable 
or unfavourable wind; fometimes_ being 
made in fix and at others not in 48 hours ; 
but the general average paffage is from 
twelve to twenty-fourhours. Whenever 
the packet arrives near the Irifh cvaft, 
which in confequence of the packet ge- 
nerally failing in the evening, is about 
fun-rife, Dublin Bay <prefents itfelf to 
the view. being one of the moft delightful 
and piéturef{que fcenes inthe world. In- 
deed its fplendid appearance has never 
been queftioned by any traveller; nor has 
even a parallel been drawn between it 
and any other view, except that of the 
Bay of Naples ; and connoiffeurs are ftill 
undetermined to which of the two the 
preference ought tube given. It prefents 
a long range of diverfified mountains, en- 
riched by a multiplicity of beautiful de- 
mefnes, which, when thus befpangled 
with the beams of the morning fun, can- 
not be delineated with eqtal beauty by 
the pencil of the moft fcientific- artift. 
Thefe mountains begin from the water's 
edge, and gradually and proudly rife in 
fucceffion for many miles, until, in the 
Janguage of Othello, “ Their tops touch 
heaven.’ Inthe midft ‘of this apparent 
diftance, but nearer the bottom of the 
f{cene, is difcovered the city of Dublin 
(the Metropolis of Ireland)whofe fteeples, 
injeed itis to be-lamented, are fu few, at 
the fame time that this view of Dublin is 
the moft unfavourable which can be taken. 
The moft eligible is that which prefents 
itfelf from the Phoenix Park, a place 
weftward of Dublin, of which I fhall 
{peak hereafter. As you approach near 
the capital, you behold that grand pro- 
montory, the hill of Howth, proudly pro- 
Jecting into the fea upon the right hand ; 
while upon the left, orto the fouthward, 
and a little nearer the capital, 1s the Ca- 
foon, or light-houfe, a very handfome 
circular building, raifed in the ocean, five 
miles from Dublin. Upon this extent, 
which runs five miles into the fea, there 
is now completed a great wall of dura- 
ble ftone-work, rifing about ten feer 
above high water mark, and thirty feet 
wide upon the furface. This great.un- 
dertaking is of the moft effential fervice 
to fhips trading to and from Dublin, as 
it prevents a great bank of floating fand 
which lies to the fouthward, from join- 
ing with another fimilar bank to the 
northward, called the North Bull, which 
has 
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