WALDORF BINDERY COMPANY, LIBRARY BINDERS, SAINT PAUL, OF THE BEST AND MOST INTERESTING VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD; MANY OF WHICH ARE NOW FIRST TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH. DIGESTED ON A NEW PLAN. BY JOHN PINKERTON, ILLUSTRATED AND ADORNED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS VOLUME FOURTH יייייי UNIVERSITY OF PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY KIMBER AND CONRAD, No. 93, MARKET STREET, William Falconer, New York; Samuel Jefferis, Baltimore; James Kennedy, sen. Alexandria; Fitzwhylsonn MERRITT, PRINTER, WATKIN'S ALLEY. CONTENTS FOURTH VOLUME. PAGE. ✓ Ramond's Journey to the Summit of Mont Perdu, 819 A GENERAL COLLECTION OF A VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. A TOUR IN IRELAND ; WITH GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THAT KINGDOM: MADE IN The years 1776, 1777, and 1778, and brought down to the end of 1779. BY ARTHUR YOUNG, Esq. F. R. S. Honorary member of the Societies of Dublin, York, and Manchester: the Economical Society of Berne; the Palatine Academy of Agriculture at Manheim; and the Physical Society at Zurich.* JUNE nineteenth, 1776, arrived at Holyhead, after an instructive journey through a part of England and Wales I had not seen before. Found the packet, the Claremont, captain Taylor, would sail very soon. After a tedious passage of twenty-two hours, landed on the twentieth, in the morning, at Dunlary, four miles from Dublin, a city which much exceeded my expectation; the public buildings are magnificent, very many of the streets regularly laid out, and exceedingly well built. The front of the parliament-house is grand, though not so light as a more open finishing of the roof would have made it. The apartments are spacious, elegant, and convenient, much beyond that heap of confusion at Westminster, so inferior to the magnificence to be looked for in the seat of empire. I was so fortunate as to arrive just in time to see lord Harcourt, with the usual ceremonies, prorogue the parliament. Trinity college is a beautiful building, and a numerous society; the library is a very fine room, and well filled. The new exchange will be another edifice to do honour to Ireland; it is elegant, cost forty thousand pounds, but deserves a better situation. From every thing I saw, I was struck with all those appearances of wealth which the capital of a thriving community may be supposed to exhibit. Happy if I find through the country in diffused prosperity the right source of this splendour! The common computation of inhabitants 200,000, but I should suppose exaggerated: others guessed the number 140 or 150,000. June 21. Introduced by colonel Burton to the lord lieutenant, who was pleased to enter into conversation with me on my intended journey, made many remarks on the agriculture of several Irish counties, and showed himself to be an excellent farmer, particularly in draining. Viewed the duke of Leinster's house, which is a very large stone edifice, the front simple but elegant, the pediment light, there are several good rooms; VOL. IV. * The Agricultural details are omitted. A |