Mail. Mitchelstown and Castle. Materials for novels.
Lord K——. Extraordinary weather for Ireland. The soldier of O’Connell’s
Militia. The Galtees. Cahir. Another of King John’s castles. Lord Glengall’s
beautiful park. The Prince’s equipage at Cashel. Force of habit. Secret of all
educations. Club dinner.

395

The rock of Cashel. One of the most curious ruins in Ireland. The Devil’s Bite.
Old Saxon architecture. Bell of the Inquisition. The statue of St. Patrick, and
throne at Scone. Hore and Athassil abbeys. Lord L——. Condition of the
Catholics in Tipperary. Church of Ireland. Laughable article in the newspaper
concerning myself. My speech.

404

The swan. Holy Cross and its monuments. Irish Catholic clergy. Dinner with
eighteen clergymen. Conversation at it. Comparison of the Wendish and the
Irish. List of the Catholic and Protestant parishes in Cashel. Curious details
and remarks upon them. Well-meant exorcism. Irish breakfast. Breakneck hunt.
The wandering bog. Feats of horses. Country gentleman’s life. The Castle in
the air. Potheen enthusiasm. Irish gentry. Lord H——.

408

The brothers. Animal life. Devils. The pretty hostess. The piper. The robbers.
The lawyer cheated. The murder of Baker. The motionless cock. Fitzpatrick
and his bag-pipe.

415

Killough Hill. The fairy garden. Romantic sentry-box. Return to Dublin. Madame
de Sevigne. Lord Byron’s tempest. Dinner with the Lord Lieutenant.
The Marquis of Anglesea. Catholic worship. Invisible music. St. Christopher.
Comparison of the Catholic and Protestant divine service. Allegory. Journal
of a London life. Difference between English and German modes of thinking.
Remarks on English Women. Malahide. Furniture seven hundred years old.
Duchess of Portsmouth. Charles the First at the court of Spain. Howth Castle.
Ducrow’s living statues.

420

Evening at Lady M——’s. Her nieces. Curious conversation. More theology.
The nightingales. All the corn of Europe. National scene. Domestic pictures.
The authoress’s boudoir. The miniature Napoleon. The Catholic Association.
Shiel, Lawless, and others. Artificial resolution. Ride in the mountains. Sentimentality
of a dandy.

427

B—— H—— on modern piety. O’Connell in a long-tailed wig. The Don Quixote
and the Dandy of the Association. Acting charades at Lady M——’s. ‘Love me
love my dog.’ Miss O’Neil. Her acting.

436

Dead-letter office. £3000 incognito. The doctor. New surgical instrument. The
bank. Bank-note metal. Gymnastics. Parlour philosophy. Paradoxes.

441

Favour of Neptune. The dream. Voyage across the channel. The young heir.
Night in the mail. Shrewsbury. The tread-mill. Yellow criminals. Church.
Curious old houses. Street curiosity. The little scholar. Ross. The river Wye.
Goderich Castle. Varied prospects. Three counties at once. Childhood of
Henry the Fifth. Grotesque rocks. Unfortunate tourist. The Druid’s Head.
Monmouth. Birth-place of Henry the Fifth. A poultry-yard. The bookseller
and his family. Theft. Kind, simple-hearted people. Tintern abbey. The ivy
avenue. The Wind Cliff. Sublime view. Chepstow Castle. Cromwell and
Henry the Eighth improvers of the picturesque. Discovery. Penitence.

451

Chepstow. Marten the Regicide. The girl’s explanation. Taxes imposed by English
lords and gentlemen on travellers. The possessor of Piercefield. Crossing the
Bristol Channel. Men and horses pèle mèle. Recapitulation. Natural pictures.
The most beautiful building. Bristol. The feudal churches. Disinterested piety
of English clergymen. The mayor’s equipage. Cook’s Folly. Lord de Clifford’s
park. Russian fleet. The model of a village. Clifton. The black and white
house. Sensibility of surgeons. Bath. The king of Bath. The Abbey church.
Singular decoration. King James the Second’s heroic feat. The eccentric Beckford.
The tower. Strange