Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 64 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 64: what you’re looking at
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# Description This is a page of running prose from "A Month's Tour," numbered 64. The text appears to be a travel narrative describing observations of Irish society and customs. The passage discusses the accomplishments and manners of Irish women and ladies of various ranks, contrasting them favorably with English counterparts. The final paragraph shifts to a travelogue entry dated the 31st, describing a journey by coach to County Wicklow and noting a geological curiosity called "the Scalp," where a road cuts through a craggy mountain. The page uses period typography with long s-characters characteristic of eighteenth-century printing.
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64 A MONTH’s TOUR. greater exercife they undergo than thofe whom fortune has exempted from la- bour. As tothe higher ranks, the Englifh have very little fuperiority to boaft of in this particular. Nor do they fall greatly fhort of them in any female accomplith- ment, unlefs we clafs fortune under this de- nomination. . The Irith ladies, like the other fex, are free and open-hearted ; and, at the fame time that they difcounte- nance ill-bred familiarity, are very far re- moved from prudifh refervednefs. Ori the 3iit we fat out in acoach and. ~ four early this morning, for the.county of Wicklow. About the fifth mile-ftone is. a very great curiofity cailed the Scalp, where the road penetrates through the midft of a mountain of the fame craggy complexion as comicbooks.com