Ireland Exhibited to England: In a Political and Moral Survey of Her Population, and in a Statistical and Scenographic Tour of Certain Districts; Comprehending Specimens of Her Colonisation, Natural History and Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Commerce ... With a Letter to the Members of His Majesty's Government on the State of Ireland, Volume 2

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Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 - Antrim (Ireland : County)

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Page 117 - special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, we have given and granted, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do give, grant, and confirm to the said mayor,
Page 383 - feet from the summit, the rock, begins to assume a columnar tendency, and forms a range of massy pillars of basalts, which stand perpendicular to the horizon, presenting, in the sharp face of the promontory, the appearance of a magnificent gallery, or colonnade, upwards of
Page 331 - of every female, and the shuttle in those of most of the males, every thing may be expected, when an object is offered of sufficient importance to call out its exertions. Thus it was in the latter end of the seventeenth, and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, when the
Page 405 - discovered, but in such a decayed state, that, on being touched, they immediately crumbled to pieces. The implements discovered were of a different construction from those of the present day; and candles, whose wicks were formed of rags, or shreds of linen, were amongst the articles that were found.
Page 377 - is formed by perpendicular pillars of basalts, which stand in contact with each other, exhibiting a sort of polygon pavement, somewhat resembling the appearance of a solid honeycomb. The pillars are irregular prisms, of various denominations, from three to five sides, but the hexagonal are as numerous as all the others taken together. On a minute inspection
Page 378 - parts. The sides of each column are unequal amongst themselves; but the contiguous sides of adjoining columns are always of equal dimensions, so as to touch in all their parts. Though the angles be of various magnitudes, yet the sum of the contiguous angles of adjoining pillars always make up four right ones,
Page 312 - transaction has ever since been considered, by the Irish, as a solemn compact between the two countries. But the circumstance, which operated more than any other to give that high degree of perfection to our fabrics, which they have attained since the commencement of the
Page 17 - recovered, and not above twenty-five or twenty-six were slain. And if it be well considered, how meanly our men were armed, and all our ammunition spent before night, and that if we had not been supplied with men, by the timely care and providence of the Earl of Donegal and
Page 375 - stand at the distance of eight miles from each other, both formed on a great and extensive scale, both abrupt towards the sea, and abundantly exposed to observation; and each, in its kind, exhibiting noble arrangements of the different species of columnar
Page 327 - day were the scanty produce of the most laborious spinner, on the common wheel, while in the same time, not more than a single pound could be carded by hand. On their jenny of 72 spindles, 72 Irish hanks were spun weekly, an increase of fourteen to one. These exertions were in time followed, on an enlarged scale, by Messrs.

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