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The country, too, received unlimited praise, with one abatement here also: in respect of its wetness; greater then than now, it may be said with some certainty.* lithgow, in particular, when he visited ^^ this sequestrate and most auspicuous monarchy," in 1619, discovered there "more Rivers, Lakes, Brooks, Strands, Quagmires, Bogs, and Marshes than in all Christendom besides." -In five months he ruined six horses and was himself more tired than any of them.
Great, however, were the fetiches, and they prevailed. The essentials of life, as they appeared to the Irishman, and as they appeared to most Europeans, diifered so utterly, and the reasons underlying the diflFerences were so unrealisable to each other, that Ireland remained compara- tively unvisited on account of its lack of the kind of interest for which travellers felt themselves bound to look.
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