Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide Through Great Britain (1803):
Dublin is the capital of Ireland, in the country of the same name. It is seated on the river Liffey, in view of the sea on the east. It is about two miles and a half in extent both in length and breadth. It was erected into a bishopric by William the Conqueror in 1084; and into an archbishopric in 1152. The streets of Dublin have a near resemblance to those of London. It contains two cathedrals, eighteen parish churches, two chapels of ease, fifteen Roman-catholic chapels, thirteen meeting-houses for dissenters of various denominations, three foreign churches and a synagogue. There are several magnificent streets and squares, many of which are newly built. Among the principal public buildings are the castle, the residence of the viceroy, which was built in 1213; Trinity college that which was the parliament house; the royal exchange; the new custom-house; the royal hospital at Kilmainham, for invalids; and Essex-bridge, one of the five bridges over the Liffey. The harbour is choaked up with two banks of sand, which prevent vessels of large burthen from going over the bar; a defect which will be remedied, no doubt, by some fine projected improvements. It is sixty miles west of Holyhead in Wales; and three hundred and thirty north west of London. This city returns two and the university one member to the united parliament
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 Chapter 19
The case is, you see, that the Campbells are going to Ireland. Mrs. Dixon has persuaded her father and mother to come over and see her directly. They had not intended to go over till the summer, but she is so impatient to see them again -- for till she married, last October, she was never away from them so much as a week, which must make it very strange to be in different kingdoms, I was going to say, but however different countries, and so she wrote a very urgent letter to her mother -- or her father, I declare I do not know which it was, but we shall see presently in Jane's letter -- wrote in Mr. Dixon's name as well as her own, to press their coming over directly, and they would give them the meeting in Dublin, and take them back to their country-seat, Balycraig, a beautiful place, I fancy. |
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