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upon, the pure fpring water was left at 
the doétor’s, and he having attempted to 
analize it, declared that, in his opinion, 
it pofleffed zorbing more than a fimple {pring. 
This report fpread abroad, the faculty 
» Were uproarious, an examination enfued, 
and Paddy, who feared he fhould be 
hanged, confeffed the whole affair; thus 
this new {pa, where a pump was ereéted, | 
and which was daily reforted to by hun- 
dreds, for fome months, is only to-be 
heard of now in confequence of this fine 
pimp prefenting itfelf to view, like a fo. 
itary gibbet. 
Having given an account of the en- 
virons of the weftern part of Dublin, for a 
diftance of ten oreleven miles, I hall 
now proceed to defcribe thofe of the 
north-eaft. - 
The firft and principal place in that 
direétion, is the feat of Lord Charlemont, 
at Marino, about two miles difant from 
Dublin, the once-beautiful Marino, which 
about twenty years ago was in its meri- 
dian of decoration, the pride of its noble 
Proprietor, and the delight of every {pec- 
tator, at once pleafed with the peculiar 
beauty of fituation, as well as the uneom- 
mon tafte difplayed in the variety of the 
plantations, 
Part of the Jawn, or rather meadow 
ground, begins at the fide of the road, 
rifing immediately from the fea-fhore, in 
a gradual afcent, for near a mile. Near 
the road is the dwelling-houfe, which is 
plain, and very indifferent, merely acoun- 
try-lodge, built of brick, and plaiftered 
with common lime and fand ; but abour 
paif a mile farther, upon a rifing ground, 
is a piece of architeéture, which may 
juftly be deemed a chef d’ouvre in that 
{cience; it is built of Portland-ftone, in 
the Doric order, highly. decorated as that 
order will permit, almoft every moulding 
is richly carved; it has four grand fronts, 
all differing a little from each other, yet 
preferving a chafte connection. ‘There 
are infulated columns in each front, in 
‘the proportion of three feet diameter ; the 
“attic ftory, in which no windows are to 
be feen from the lawn, is enlivened, part- 
ly by well-dilpofed baluftrades, and partly 
by a broad projeéting ornamented cor~- 
nice, with pediments on the eaft and weft 
fronts, and by ornamented tablets, in the 
north and fouth fronts. 
‘On each fide of thefe tablets is placed 
a flatue, as large as life; in the north 
front are the ftatues of Bacchus and Ceres, 
and in the fouth thofe of Apollo and Ve- 
nus ; above thefe, and over the tablets, 
ftand the two principal chimnies of the 
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Tour in the Vicinity of Dublin. 
building, which are richly {culptured 
vafes, about four feer high, having an un- 
commonly light and beautiful appearance, 
The area round the building, between 
‘thofe places where you afcend by fteps, is 
alfo enlivened by a baluftrade, elevated 
upon a plinth and bafe, about twelve 
inches from the lawn. . 
The infide of this edifice, which, upon 
the principal floor, contains a veftibule, a 
faloon, a ftudy, and a boidore, feems to 
have been commenced with all the mag- 
nificence of eaftern fplendor: the floors 
are all tolaid woods of various colours, 
forming geometrical figures, the doors, 
which are all folding, are compofed of 
cedar on the one fide and mahogany on 
‘the other, both empannelled, and the 
mouldings round the pannels richly carv- 
ed: the boidore is decorated with fome 
compartments of looking-glafs placed in 
the wall, round which is fome light and 
elegant ftucco work of various fruits and 
flowers, branching a little upon the fur- 
face of the glafs, and all, as J was inform~ 
ed, were intended to be painted fo as to 
reprefent nature: there ls. in this room a 
moft exquifite marble chimney-piece, of 
afmall fize, but highly fculptured wich 
correfponding fruits, fowers, and fhells. 
The ceiling of the library, or ftudy, is 
formed by a dky-coloured dome, in a 
frieze, round the bottom of which is re- 
prefented the twelve figns, of the zodiac, 
in plaifter-of-paris, daffo-relieve. 
Five miles beyond Marino, and fix from 
Dublin, to which there is an excelient 
road with fome pleafant villas at either 
fide, is the ancient caftle of Malahide, now 
and long inhabited by tho Talbot family. 
This caitle was formerly a place of great 
firength and fortified, it is fituated in a 
very pleafant country, rich in verdure, 
and has a fine view of the fea and the ad- 
jacent lands; there is in the cattle a 
very antique’ room with many antient or~ 
naments, Jas. alfa, a very large faloon 
wainfcotted and fivored with old irith 
oak. 
. The family of the Talbots enjoy many 
grants and prerogatives, fuch as import- 
ing coais and other merchandize duty 
free into Malahide, where there ts a {mail 
harbour.. The father of the prefent pro- 
prietor, about fifteen years fince, pleaded 
his patent in exemption of ferving the 
office of high-theriff of the county of 
Dublin, which was allowed ; the prefent 
Mr. Talbot neverthelefs ferved that of-- 
fice a few years fince. 
About two miles beyond Malahide, and 
eight from Dublin, is that grand pro- 
nontory 
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