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 2Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 - Antrim (Ireland : County) |
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Page 49
... amount to ten or £ 12,000 per annum . Thus the tenant , by presenting to his landlord a certain proportion of the produce of the soil , is reinstated in his ancient title , and placed in very good circumstances to acquire a competent ...
... amount to ten or £ 12,000 per annum . Thus the tenant , by presenting to his landlord a certain proportion of the produce of the soil , is reinstated in his ancient title , and placed in very good circumstances to acquire a competent ...
Page 54
... amount they are now arrived , the following corrected return of the customs , for nine recent years , will show : : - Year ending Jan. 5 , 1802 - £ 182,314 5 11/20 270,434 7 1 1803 - 1804 -- 201,180 4 9 1805 - 207,402 6 2/1 1806 ...
... amount they are now arrived , the following corrected return of the customs , for nine recent years , will show : : - Year ending Jan. 5 , 1802 - £ 182,314 5 11/20 270,434 7 1 1803 - 1804 -- 201,180 4 9 1805 - 207,402 6 2/1 1806 ...
Page 56
... amount of its exports , described for a similar period , do not leave the reader dependent on conjecture for his knowledge of the trade of this place and if to this inventory of the imports of Belfast , for two successive years , we ...
... amount of its exports , described for a similar period , do not leave the reader dependent on conjecture for his knowledge of the trade of this place and if to this inventory of the imports of Belfast , for two successive years , we ...
Page 168
... amounts to the same thing , for the equally valuable metal that we shall prevent from being injuriously transported out of them . From the expense connected with the proper maintenance of a large hotel , ( which , in the pre- sent state ...
... amounts to the same thing , for the equally valuable metal that we shall prevent from being injuriously transported out of them . From the expense connected with the proper maintenance of a large hotel , ( which , in the pre- sent state ...
Page 251
... amount- ing to £ 175,000 , being for a canal , upon a scale 13 feet wide at bottom , 25 feet at water surface , four feet depth of water in the canal , and three feet six inches on the cills , with locks 80 feet long and ten feet wide ...
... amount- ing to £ 175,000 , being for a canal , upon a scale 13 feet wide at bottom , 25 feet at water surface , four feet depth of water in the canal , and three feet six inches on the cills , with locks 80 feet long and ten feet wide ...
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acres of demesne ancient antiquity appears Armagh Ballycastle Ballyclare Ballymena Ballymenagh Ballymoney barony basalt beauty Belfast bleaching bogs Bushmills called canal Carrickfergus castle church coal coast considerable cotton county of Antrim Crumlin Dervock Dioc Diocese Connor distance district Dublin eminent English erected establishment extensive farm feet former gentleman Giant's Causeway Glenarm Glenavy Hertford hill improvement inhabitants Ireland Irish acres island island Magee James John labour Lagan land Larne latter limestone linen trade Lisburn Lord Lough Erne Lough Neagh manufacture ment miles north mills Moira mountains neat neighbourhood north of Dublin noticed opens a communication parish plantations planted Portglenone post town province quantity Randalstown render residence river road scene Scotch Scotland seat Shane's castle shew shore side situated Six Mile water soil stands stone tion Toome tract tree Ulster village wood
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Page 18 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Page 18 - If the Lord himself had not been on our side, now may Israel say : if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us; They had swallowed us up quick : when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.
Page 115 - Our more special Grace, certain Knowledge and mere Motion, We have given and granted, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, do give and grant unto the said...
Page 393 - On examining this subterranean wonder, it was found to be a complete gallery, which had been driven forward many hundred yards to the bed of coal : that it branched off into numerous chambers, where miners had carried on their different works : that these chambers were dressed in a workmanlike manner: that pillars were left at proper intervals to support the roof. In short...
Page 18 - But it is to be remembered much with regret, that this loss and overthrow did so enrage the rebels, that for several days and weeks after, they murdered many hundreds of protestants whom they had kept prisoners in the counties of Armagh and Tyrone, and other parts of Ulster, and tormented them by several manners of death. And it is a circumstance very observable, that much snow had fallen in the week before this action, and...
Page 319 - Boyd, and erecting them into a free barony, to be called, in all time coming, the Barony of Kilbride, and which he assumed as his own designation, and under which title he appears several times as a Commissioner of Supply for the County of Ayr, towards the latter end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. He had also a share in the troubles of the times, during the reign of Charles II.
Page 337 - ... by their looks and -manners, but particularly by the air of comfort about their dwellings, and a fondness for gardens and orchards. Near Belfast was likewise a colony of Lancashire and Cheshire men, settled there, as it is said, by...
Page 347 - ... soil. This island contains no native quadruped except rats, and the little straw mouse, which is sometimes found. The inhabitants are a simple, laborious, and honest race of people, and possess a great degree of affection for their own country, always speaking of Ireland as of a foreign land. A common and heavy curse among them is, " May Ireland be your latter end...
Page 365 - Oa a minute inspection, each pillar is found to be separable into several joints, whose articulation is neat and compact beyond expression, the convex termination of one joint always meeting a concave socket in the next ; besides which, the *
Page 313 - N. Grimshaw, cotton and linen printer, from England, who had some time before settled in this country ; and shortly after, an experienced spinner was brought over by Mr. Joy, from Scotland, to instruct the children in the house. Also, under the same direction, and at the expense of the gentlemen mentioned, a carding machine was erected, to go by water, at Mr.