Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 42 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 42: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or tour account. The text describes the author's journey through Irish locations, noting Dublin's food supply, a spa-like water feature near the "five mile stone," their arrival at Lipzlip where they ate eggs and drank tea, and Lord Masereene's estate situated romantically near the banks of the Liffey river, which features a pleasant wooded walk. The prose is broken across multiple paragraphs in period typography with long 's' characters.
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