Identifier: leighsnewpocketr00hami (find matches)
Title: Leigh's new pocket road-book of Ireland, containing an account of all the direct and cross roads; together with a description of every remarkable place ..
Year: 1835 (1830s)
Authors: (Hamilton, Charles Claude), (from old catalog) ed
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Publisher: London, Printed for Leigh and son
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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256 miles from London, to Waterford. The dis-tance is about 84 miles; and the voyage occupies fromeight to twelve hours, according to the weather. DESCRIPTION OF DUBLIN. Dublin, the metropolis of Ireland, the chief town ofthe county of the same name, in the province of Leinster,is situated on the eastern coast of that country, in lat.53c 21 N., and long. 6° 15 W. It is about a mile fromthe Bay of Dublin, a semicircular basin eight miles indiameter, celebrated for the beauty of its shores, and saidto bear a considerable resemblance to the Bay of Naples.The north side of the harbour is sheltered by the Hill ofHowth, on which there is a light-house, and the entranceto the city is defended by extensive moles. South of the town is seen, at a short distance beyond, gentlyrising meadows and pleasure grounds, a beautiful range ofhills, of varied shape and considerable magnitude, whichtraverses the county of Wicklow, and bounds the coastrunning south-east from the city. To the north-east, the
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/IMisJii,1 l>v I.aph tion. .421 Strand. 64 DESCRIPTION OF DUBLIN. low lands skirting the sea coast, leading to the fine promon-tory of Howth Head on the right hand* are covered withinnumerable vistas of luxuriant trees, and appear likea continued wood, with a church tower, or a stately man-sion here and there rising above the foliage. The City of Dublin occupies a circular area of about threemiles in diameter, and contains two Cathedrals, nineteenChurches, several Chapels of Ease, numerous RomanCatholic Chapels, a Calvinists Church, a Danish and aDutch Lutheran Chapel, a Synagogue, various Chapelsof Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Moravians, andQuakers, and several Roman Catholic Monastic Institu-tions. The number of inhabitants amounts to 204,155.The original name was Eblana: it is so called by Ptolemy,who wrote in the year a. d. 140. The river Liffey divides Dublin into two nearly equalportions, which may be denominated the north and southdivisions. On the south side of theleighsnewpocketr00hami

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