Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 105 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 105: what you’re looking at
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# A Month's Tour, Page 105 This is a page of running prose text from what appears to be a travel narrative or descriptive work about Ireland (page 105 of "A Month's Tour"). The author discusses Ireland's potential for timber production, arguing that the historical lack of oak trees resulted from past neglect during wars rather than the soil's inability to support them. The passage goes on to praise Ireland's water resources, particularly the River Shannon as exceptionally fine, and notes the abundance of good harbors throughout the island. The text employs 18th-century spelling conventions ("ifland," "beft," "Shannen").
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A MONTH’ TOUR. 105 might be remedied by induftry, Thewant of timber is to be attributed folely to the inattention of former ages, who were con- tinually engaged in. wars and civil broils, in negleéting the plantation of oak trees. That the foil of Ireland will produce them,. is evident from feveral edifices built chiefly” of Irifh oak, in which this ifland abounded in former ages; and certainly no caufe can be affigned why the fame may not ftill be railed. This country ‘ts excellently watered, and their waters abound with the beft of fith : no ifland in Europe, probably in the known world, can boaft of a finer river than the ‘Shannen. There is alfo im Ireland great plenty of - ‘very commodious. ‘harbours, which js. a : O fin- comicbooks.com