It divides England from Scotland. If any
one were to say to you, " Have you ever been
beyond the Tweed ? " should you know what
he meant ? *



IRELAND.
See that coimtry close to England. Does it
not look like her little sister?

Country. — Ireland, you know, has been
called the Emerald Isle, because the emerald is
a green Itone, and the fields of Ireland are very

* Taken chiefly from Kohl's Scotland, Dr. Carus's Tour
with the King of Saxony, the Rev. Francis Trench's Scot-
lattd.
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IRELAND.
green. And why are they so green ? Because
it rains so much. It rains almost every day —
but it is not quite so cold as it is in England.
Is Ireland beautiful P

It has fine mountains and lakes : but it has
very few trees, and it has great bogs. Bogs are
soft ground which gives way under your feet.
Yet they are of use, for the earth on the top of
the bogs is called turf, and is used in Ireland
instead of coals. I do not know what the Irish
would do without their turf, for although there
are coals in Ireland, the poor people do not like
the trouble of digging them up: they prefer
just going to the bog, fetching a piece of turf,
drying it, and burning it.
Cottages. — There are some very miserable
huts in Ireland, called cabins or cottages.
Irish Cabin.
