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Dr. McParlan in the Statistical Survey of Mayo of 1801, p. 229, speaks of " the stalwart sons of Mayo ; " the Statistical Survey of Leitrim in 1802, p. 63, says " The people's clothing is remarkably neat and strong ; they seldom want provisions ; every father in the county sends his children to school. " 132. The Kev. A. Atkinson, a Protestant writer, says in his Irish Tourist: "The Leitrim peasant appears to me to have a certain amiable simplicity of character. Although in religious (!E. H. ),... com- mercial, and literary advantages he may not stand upon a footing with his brother, the Irish northern, he has nevertheless, considered merely in a natural point of view, the advantage of him with regard to his country. The northern has not for the most part (if I may judge by the specimens I have seen) his imagination exalted by the same beauty and grandeur of lake and mountain which may have THEIR HEIGHT, FORM, AND STRENGTH. 123 conspired with other causes, to soften and simplify the character of the Leitrim peasant.
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