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 . istilleries. There is, however,it appears, a considerable quantity of the cele-brated mountain dew or poteen, with its peculiar, and to some nostrils,tempting aroma of turf flavor, still produced among the wilder districts of Ire-land ; a recent return showing that 176 persons were tried for selling untaxedspirits. The inland trade from Dublin is carried on chiefly
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 . istilleries. There is, however,it appears, a considerable quantity of the cele-brated mountain dew or poteen, with its peculiar, and to some nostrils,tempting aroma of turf flavor, still produced among the wilder districts of Ire-land ; a recent return showing that 176 persons were tried for selling untaxedspirits. The inland trade from Dublin is carried on chiefly by several railways, threeof which have vast depots and termini at the North Wall. The revenue producedby railways in Ireland is largely augmented by there being no passenger roads are constructed in the best manner, and the termini of several—especially those of the Dublin and Drogheda, in Amiens Street, the MidlandGreat Western, at the Broad Stone, and the Great Southern and Western, atKings Bridge—may be enumerated as adding to the architectural beauty of thecity, being regarded in their styles as fully equal to any in Britain. There aretwo canals—the Grand and the Royal —which, starting from north and. Moores Birthplace—as it is. DUBLIN. 343 south of the Liffey, encircle the city, and proceed thence to MulHngar and theShannon, and by means of these an extensive trade in bricks, timber, turf, andcoal is maintained. Unlike London and other cities whose fashionable elements turn toward a west end, the Irish metropolis has its most select associations in the south-east. The Castle, the University, the Catholic University, College of Surgeons,the principal scientific institutions, banks, theaters, and finer squares and streetsare in this division. The houses are older and in point of appearance inferiorto the more modern west end of London, yet, adds Fraser, they are in everyway equally adapted to health and comfort, as well as to the enjoyment of all thehos
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