Excerpt from Letters on the Irish Nation: Written During a Visit to That Kingdom, in the Autumn of the Year 1799 Gentlemen of that defcription are includ cd, . By Sterne, within the clafs of tra vellers from necefiit'y. Thei'r objeets are bufinefs, . Or military fervice, and if ever they move out of the fphere of thofe duties, if.f is entirely for their own plea fure: the literary World is never in the' leaft 'in{trueted by it. Thei'e has not been a Chardin ora Rennell in Ireland. Setting afide then altogether this defcrip tion of travellers, who, to confefs thel truth, have been hitherto by far too nu merous for the advantage either of Great Britain or of Ireland; I think it will be cbnceded to me, that if we look over the lift of tourifts who have favoured the world with that knowledge which the in defatigable fpirit of Britifh inquiry has led them to collee't in other countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.