Ireland


The Modern and Authentic System of Universal Geography(1810) by George Alexander Cooke Esq

Ireland is situated between 51 and 55 degrees 30 minutes north latitude, and between 5 and 10 degrees west longitude. It is bounded on the north by the Ducalodonian sea on the west by the Atlantic and on the east and south by St Geroge's Channel.

The extent or superficial content of this island is from the nearest computation and survey, found to be in length 285 miles from Fairhead north to Missenhead south; and from the east part of Down to the west of Mayo, its greatest breadth 160 miles; and to contain eleven millions sixty-seven thousand, seven hundred and twelve Irish plantation acres, which make seventeen million, nine hundred and twenty seven thousand, eight hundred and sixty-four acres of English measure, and is held to bear proportion to England and Wales as eighteen to thirty. From the east part of Wexford to St David's in Wales it is reckoned forty five miles but the passage between Domaghadee and Portpatrick in Scotland is a little more than twenty miles and the passage from Dublin to Holyhead in North Wales, about 52 miles.

Quotations
 Chapter 2 
“But, aunt, she is really so very ignorant!—Do you know, we asked her last night which way she would go to get to Ireland; and she said, she should cross to the Isle of Wight. She thinks of nothing but the Isle of Wight, and she calls it the Island, as if there were no other island in the world. I am sure I should have been ashamed of myself, if I had not known better long before I was so old as she is. I cannot remember the time when I did not know a great deal that she has not the least notion of yet. How long ago it is, aunt, since we used to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with the dates of their accession, and most of the principal events of their reigns!”
 

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