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Excerpt from Narrative of a Residence in Ireland During the Summer of 1814, and That of 1815
I have great obligations to acknowledge to many friends for assist ance given in the prosecution of the work. My thanks are more par ticularly due to the two gentlemen by whom I was favoured with the principal part of the sketches for the engravings. Most of them were taken at my own particular desire, with a view to the illustration of. My work those that were not so, were. Furnished me by a friend who had visited the spots from which theywere taken two or three years pre vions to my visiting them. In making the drawings, according to my very earnest request, the strictest fidelity has been observed. I have, in the course of my work, rep'robated the too common practice among artists, of rather aiming at forming a pleasing combination of objects, than, delineating the spot such as it really is: buti trust it will not 'be found in any of the plates here given, that the efforts of imagination are wanted to add interest to the scenes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
