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SKETCHES

OF

SOME OF THE

SOUTHERN COUNTIES

OF

IRELAND,

COLLECTED

DURING A TOUR IN THE AUTUMN, 1797.

FOR

IN

A SERIES OF LETTERS.

BY G. HOLMES.

"Nor is the Mead unworthy of thy Foot,

"Full of fresh Verdure, and unnumber'd Flowers,
"The negligence of Nature, wide, and wild;
"Where, undisguis'd by mimic Art, she spreads
"Unbounded Beauty to the roving Eye."

THOMSON'S SEASONS.

LONDON:

Printed by J. D. Dewick, Aldersgate Street,

LONGMAN AND REES; J. CUTHELL; AND VERNOR
AND HOOD; AND SOLD BY J. ARCHER, DUBLIN.

1801.

BIB

HEC

to

HER GRACE

THE

DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE.

MADAM,

A STRANGER to England,

but not so to the refined taste for polite literature, and unbounded patronage of the fine arts, so eminently conspicuous in your Grace: permit me, Madam, to offer to your favourable notice the following hasty sketches, originating from objects but imperfectly known to this country; and by the present crisis, rendered particularly interesting. The intention with which they are published will, I trust, in some degree, extenuate their faults;

and