From a window we observed him stalking among the ruins, fometimes with -a measured pace, and at times urged -on by fudden ftarts; his hands locked in each other, and his eyes fixed on the sky. What a fubject was here for one of our modern romances, who deal fo largely in myfterious figures, noifes, &c. who by raifing fome 'white mift, hovering in the air,' with the help of a few uncertain rays of the moon, which might fall upon a rusty dagger, and a drop or two of blood upon the pavement, might produce as excellent a ghost of this poor lunatic as ever was made.

"Our furmifes were juftified, for we found he was mere flesh and blood, and had inhabited that tower for thefe eleven years paft, fubfifting on the bounty of Dr. Madden, who holds the living. He comes regularly up to the parfonage-houfe, which ftands on the top of this floping lawn, and re'ceives his meals, which he carries down to his cell, and there depofits; this place he fortifies ingeniouly against the winter blafts, by matted straw and hay, and renders it really a warm, comfortable abode. Amongst the coun'try people he paffes for a perfon of fome influence among the fairies, with whom they frequently hear him in earneft converfation. Sometimes he is feen fitting with his legs dangling out of an high window in the tower, making long fpeeches to the moon; and when the goddess veils her face behind a cloud, he exhorts her to reappear in a strain of tremendous vociferation."

P. 5.

ANECDOTE OF THOMAS EARL OF

KILDARE.

"THIS Thomas was furnamed Nuppagh (i. e. the Ape), on the following account: being only nine years old when his father and grandfather were flain by the M'Carties, and nurfed at Tralee, whither the news of their deaths fuddenly arriving, the nurfes who attended, in their firft aftonifhment, ran out of the houfe, and left the child alone in the cradle, when a baboon or ape, that was kept in the family, took up the infant and carried it to the top of the caftle, from whence, after bearing it round the battlements, and fhowing it for fome time to the aftonished fpectators, he brought it

down safe, and laid it in the cradle. By this accident he was called the Nuppagh; and the Dukes of Leinster being his immediate defcendants, continue to bear monkies for their supporters and crest, in grateful remembrance of the faid Thomas's prefervation." P. 77.

REBELLION OF THE LAST EARL OF DESMOND, 1580.

"AFTER three years of ceafelets warfare, and of variable fuccefs, Deimond retired to the woods and fastheffes (his caftles taken or deftroyed, his troops fcattered and disheartened), attended by a few followers: himself difguifed in mean apparel, and in the utmoft extremity of diftrefs; two horfemen, and a few kerns, ventured to feize fome cattle for their fubfiftence; but the owner giving the alarm to a neighbouring military poft, they were purfued, and the cattle tracked to a wood, about four miles from Tralee, in which they refolved to lodge. About midnight they difcovered a light not far off, and gathering their party clofe together, fent one man on to fee who were there; he returned, and informed them that there were five or fix perfons in a ruined house, whereupon they determined to attack them. On entering, they found but one man, of venerable afpect, ftretched languidly before a fire. Kelly, of Morierty, atfailed and wounded the old man, who faintly exclaimed, Spare me, I am the Earl of Defmond;' but the favage ftruck off his head, and carrying it to the Earl of Ormond, it was fent over to the Queen, and impaled upon London bridge: the body, after eight weeks hiding, was interred in a small chapel near Castle island. The family, of Morierty are ftill in difgrace among the people for the death of this unfortunate Earl. Thus was a family extinguished, which had flourished for four centuries in rude fplendour and magnificence, and had frequently proved too powerful to be governed. With the poffeffions of independent princes, and a large army of followers, they were naturally tempted to affume the port of fovereignty, unreftrained by a government which frequently depended on them for fupport. The lands for feited by this Earl amounted to 574,63% acres Irish. The Defmonds were al

ways in oppofition to the houfe of Ormond,

them entirely. By degrees a general gloom involved the whole, while the wind fwept down the fides of Glenaá and Tomifh, lifting the waves to an alarming height, giving it all the appearance of the angry Atlantic. This was followed by heavy rain, which, with the waves breaking over us, foaked us entirely through; even the thick coats which the boatmen lent us proved infufficient to protect us from the spray. At length we gained the island, but not without fome difficulty." P. 139.

"FROM the diftant view we had of Blarney Caftle, on the evening we arrived at Cork, we determined on taking the first opportunity of vifiting it, which we did yesterday. It lies on the river Aubeg, about four miles from Cork, and was built by Cormac M'Carty, furnamed Laider, who came into the lordship in 1449, and was esteemed one of the strongest fortreffes in Munfter. In the Pacata Hibernia, it is defcribed as being compofed of four large piles joined in one. Thefe piles, I fuppofe, meant great towers, one of which remains, of an immense fize; its foundation is laid in the folid rock, which fecures it from mining; the walls are eighteen feet thick, and are flanked with baftions. In 1602, Cormac M'Dermot Carty was accused of holding treasonable correfpondence with the rebels, and obliged to deliver this caftle into the poffeffion of Captain Taafe, for her Majefty's ufe. This Cormac is reprefented as a man of great power, being able to raise a thousand men at a call; he alfo poffeffed the caftles of Macroomp and Kilcrea; the latter he gave up to the Lord Prefident Carew, being then his prifoner, but

efcaped out of his hands foon after Great part of the original building is entirely down, but the additions which have been added, were fo judiciously defigned and executed, that they be come now a part admirably blended with the whole, and do not offend the eye by incongruity. In the grounds are very curious maffes of artificial rocks, the best managed I ever faw: age has covered them with moss and various kinds of herbage, giving them all the appearance of being natural. The majeftic trees which furround the caftle, and spread their dark shade over the grounds, difrufe a gloom that accords well with the building, and is by no means unpleating. This manor, with a large estate in this county, were forfeited by M'Carty, Earl of Clancarty, for his adherence to James II. It is now the property of Mr. Jeffries, being purchafed from the crown. At prefent it is undergoing a thorough repair, and I must own I felt a fincere pleasure in contemplating its renovation, and refumption of its ancient dignity.

"Were gentlemen to confider the refpectability which fuch refidences attach to their name and family, we fhould not meet with fo many noble piles mouldering away in ruined grandeur, the indifputable documents of our ancestors' power and magnificence. This caftle annoyed Cork exceedingly in the war of 1641, but was taken by Lord Broghill in 1646." P. 162.

HEAP OF RUDE STONES CALLED THE

HAG'S BED.

"NEAR Glanworth is a curious monument called Labacally (i, e. the Hag's Bed). From its fize, it must have been defigned for fome eminent perfon, but of which nothing now re

mains even from tradition. It confifts of feveral broad flag ftones, fupported by others of various fizes, pitched in the ground. One of the upper ftones is seventeen feet long and nine broad, and in the middle fix feet thick, from whence it flopes to the edges; at the end of the great one are two others, which feem to be intended to lengthen the whole: the firft of these is eleven feet broad and feven long, and the laft feven feet fquare. There was a fourth huge flag which lies on the weft fide; on each fide are double rows of broad flags, on which the great flags refted: fome are five and fix feet high, and three thick.

"At about fixteen feet another range of flag ftones encircled the tomb, rude and various in the fhapes and fizes. It is fingular to remark, that there is none of this kind of ftone nearer than five or fix miles, being a coarse grit, found in the mountains which feparate this county from Limerick. When we hear of thofe vaft bodies being lifted and carried by the ancient inhabitants of this country, over hills and through valleys, we naturally wonder at the means which enabled them, not knowing that they poffeffed any_knowledge of mechanical powers. De la Vega mentions, that there were ftones in the fortrefs of Cufco, in Peru, upwards of forty feet long, and were drawn by the ftrength of men ten, twelve, or fifteen leagues, over hills and the most difficult ways to that place; and there is one ftone to which the Indians gave the name of Syacufa (i. e. the tired or the weary), because it never arrived at the place it was defigned for, but remains ftill upon the road. This rock was drawn by 20,000 Indians fifteen leagues over very rugged ways; but, notwithstanding all their care, it tumbled down a very steep hill and killed feveral hundred of the Indians, who were endeavouring to poise the weight. Thus these Indians, without pullies or other engines, lifted up vaft ftones to the top of steep hills,, in order to build the places of ftrength, long before an European came among them." P. 178.

LISMORE CASTLE.

"THE caftle was built by King John in 1185, and was demolished by the Irish, who furprised it 1189, flaying the garrison, with Robert Barry the

governor. After it was rebuilt, it con tinued to be the refidence of the bishops till the time of Miler Migragh, who, with the confent of the dean and chapter, granted it, with fome lands, to Sir Walter Rawley, at the yearly rent of 137. 6s. 8d.: foon after it came into the hands of Sir Richard Boyle, who purchased all Sir Walter's lands, and who beautified and enlarged it confiderably. At the breaking out of the rebellion of 1641, it was heheged by 5000 Irish troops, commanded by Sir Richard Beling; but was bravely defended by the young Lord Broghill, third fon to the Earl of Cork, who obliged the Irish to raife the fiege: however, it did not long continue in the Earl's poffeffion, being taken by Lord Caftlehaven 1645.

James II. dined in the great room, and going to look out of the window, ftarted back in terror from its precipitate elevation above the river. One does not, on entering the castle, perceive it to be fituated fo high; nor can they fufpect the perpendicular fteepnefs of its rear. One of the rooms is, celebrated for giving birth to the great Robert Boyle.

"This noble pile is now in the poffeffion of his Grace the Duke of Devonfhire, whofe agent refides here, and has made many alterations and repairs; but with fo little tafte and adherence to the great original, that I am confident, were the Duke to see them, his Grace would feel a fenfible regret, and inftantly order thefe unworthy repairs to be replaced by others more conformable to the ancient ftyle of the building.

"The great flanking fquare towers are ftill rooflefs, except where the venerable and lofty afh-trees fling their fhady branches over their walls, and form a verdant canopy. This magnificent caftle, at an inconfiderable expenfe, might be renovated and rendered one of the most respectable baronial dwellings, perhaps, in Europe: as a picturefque object it cannot be excelled. The bridge is a fine structure, confifting of one great arch of about 109 feet in the fpan, over the main part of the river, and of fix fmaller ones underneath the causeway on the north fide: thefe laft are intended to carry off the floods, which in autumn fwell this river very confiderably. To the munificent and public spirit of the

prefent

JETTER I. The End and Object

of Education.--II. Affociation of Ideas-How rendered permanent. --III. Affociations producing the Paffion of Fear. -IV. The Nature of Antipathies examined-Nature of Prejudice.-V. Religion.-VI. Religion continued.-VII. On the Cultivation of Benevolence.-VIII. Examination into the ufual Methods employed to counteract the Effects of injudicious Indulgence.--IX. Partiality its pernicious Effects-Affociations producing Contempt for the femaleCharacter: their Confequences. -X. Self-denial: its Neceffity: how to be inculcated.-XI. Objects of Senfe: Ufe to be made of these in infant Education.-XII. Affociations infpiring the Love of Wealth.-XIII. Love of Power-Love of Glory, of Praise, of Dress, and Admiration. -XIV. Review of Principles-Family Pride-Self-importance-Children's Books.---Conclufion-Additional Notes and Obfervations.

EXTRACT FROM THE INTRODUCTION.

"FROM the number of writers upon the fubject of education that have lately appeared, and from the favourable reception which their various treatifes and fyftems have met with from the public, an inference may be drawn, highly pleasing to every philanthropic mind. Infenfible must be the foul that does not take an intereft in what fo nearly concerns the happiness and profperity of the fociety

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in which he lives; and narrow the heart, that does not extend that intereft to the happiness of the fucceeding generation!

"Infpired by this fentiment, the writer of the following pages has taken up the pen, not to criticife the fyflems of others, nor to offer mechanical rules for facilitating the work of inftruction, but humbly to throw in her quota of obfervation and experience, as a mall addition to the general flock.

"It appears to her, that upon the important fubject of education s are lefs neceflary than principles; and that it is by implicitly following the former, as they have been laid down by eminent writers, without exaraining the latter, that difappointment has fo frequently enfued.

The fame practice would be followed by the like confequence in every branch of fcience.

"The agricultural improver, whe, on the northern fide of the Grampian

Hills, fhould implicitly adopt the plan of hufbandry laid down by the Devonthire fariner, would have but fony crops. In vain would he boaft, that his ploughs were of the fame conftruction, that his furrows were of equal depth, and that he had, in fpite of frofts and fhow, of ftorm and tempeft,

committed the feed to the reluctant bofom of the earth on the appointed day of his labours and his toil, the fole reward would be mortification and difappointment! But if, inftead of proceeding by rules adapted to a more genial climate and more benignant foil, the northern agriculturift directs his attention to the nature of foil in general, with all its particular modifications; if he ftudies the temperature of the region in which he lives, and carefully proves the principles he thus acquires, by the teft of obfervation and experience; he will literally fow in hope, and reap in joy, bringing his 'fheaves with him'." P. iv..

EXTRACTS.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS. "WHETHER we caft our eyes on the effeminate and indolent inhabitants of the Eaft, or turn our attention to the more sturdy favages of the Weftern hemifphere, ftill we fhall find the ef fects of early education too potent for time to efface, or death itself to con

quer.