Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 102 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 102: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose from what appears to be the body text of a penny dreadful serial titled "A Month's Tour." The visible text contains observations about Dublin, Ireland, describing the city as a mixture of grandeur and poverty, noting its approximately 200,000 inhabitants, the River Liffey's division of the city into two parts crossed by five bridges (with Effex and Queen's bridges highlighted as noteworthy), and details about its circular road and poorly-paved principal streets. The tone is that of a traveler's descriptive commentary.
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2 A MONTH’s TOUR obiervations upon the country and inhabi-. tants of Ireland, the city of Dublin, &c.. The city of Dublin is a ftrange mixture of grandeur and meannefs. Many of its females exhibit a true reprefentation of the city itfelf, who appear finely decorated a- bout the head, with their feet and legs. quite bare. It is upwards of three milts- long, and nearly. as many broad, and con- tains about 200,000 inhabitants. The.river: Liffey divides ir into two equal parts,, over: which are built five bridges, of thefe Effex: and Queen’s only are worth. mentioning. The city is.furrounded. with a beautiful’ . circular road, about eight miles. round.. _ The principal fireets are flagged, but, for. _ the moft part, ill-paved, The comicbooks.com