I have four acres of land, how can I lite
and rear my children, and pay thirty shil-



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lings an acre off that ? and I am subject to
have my pig or the bed from under me,
canted by one, two, three, four— och^Ido
not know how many landlords — and now I
am going to Nedeen, to get some physic
from the Poticary, for the dry potatoes^ ma&-
tcr, agree but poorly with my stomach in the
spring of the year. Och, then it^s I that
wishes that the great College that does be
making men so lamed and so wise, would
send down some of these larned people here,
just to be after making their own poor
tenants a little happier and a little asier.^^

I left this poor man uttering, what I fear
are unavailing regrets, and proceeded to the
town of Nedeen, when I left the worst, and
proceeded towards Killamey, on the best
road in Ireland ; so that it was my fortune
on the same day, to pass along the worst and
best road in the world. The river Kenmare^
which I crossed before I entered Nedeen,
is the head water of the estuary that runs up
thirty miles from the Atlantic, and how I
wished that time was allowed to journey



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along its shores, and view all the subjects of
interest^ as to scenery and antiquities which
abound here, and in the Barony of Iveragh,
but it was my business to proceed straight
to Killarney.
