Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . read byFerguson, the poet, before the Royal Irish Academy, in 1872, presented someinteresting facts, accompanied by a plan of the cemetery and the tumuli, inthe opening of which on the western division, the mouth of a cave was dis-covered. From Mullingar to Athlone, the country is undulating, fertile, and well culti-A^ated. It is a rich grazing district, and great a
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . read byFerguson, the poet, before the Royal Irish Academy, in 1872, presented someinteresting facts, accompanied by a plan of the cemetery and the tumuli, inthe opening of which on the western division, the mouth of a cave was dis-covered. From Mullingar to Athlone, the country is undulating, fertile, and well culti-A^ated. It is a rich grazing district, and great attention is paid to the breeding ofall kinds of cattle, the oxen and horses being of superior character. On leavingLough Ree, two miles above, the Shannon resumes its river character, sweepsIts great volume of water through the center of Athlone, forming in its progressthe boundaries of the provinces of Connaught and Leinster, and leaving one halfof the town in Westmeath, and the other in Roscommon. The new bridge andriver quays are great modern improvements in Athlone, the most considerabletown between Dublin and Galway ; and its position on the Shannon has longrendered it a place of great military Maria Edged oj th s Raic/ince The small and inland County of Longford, as before remarked, was untilthe tirrie of Elizabeth, a portion of Meath. Its aspect is not remarkable forpicturesqueness, being flat, except on its northern extremity ; but its chief towns,Longford, Edgeworthstown and Granard, are notable for cleanliness. It is wellwatered, having on the west Lough Ree and the Shannon, and their tributaries,the Rinn, the Camlin and Inny, intersecting the county in their courses to chief interest of the county is derived from its associations with the nameand labors of Maria Edgeworth and her family ; and from the still greater dis-tinction of having been the birthplace of Oliver Goldsmith, and its neighbor-hood the inspiration of his best known
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