A Catechism of Irish Geography and Topography
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Excerpt from A Catechism of Irish Geography and Topography: Physical, Social, Historical and Biographical; For Schools and Families To write a book without books, is something like making a tool without tools; and to expect a creditable geography of Ireland without the writings of Kirwan, Griffith, and Pertlock on its geology - of Keogh, Mackay and While on its botany - of Young, Wakefield, and Curwin on its agriculture and social condition - of Kane on its general productive capacity - of Frazer on its mines and fisheries - of Ware, O Reilly, and Wills on its biography - of Petrie on its architecture - of the Collectanea and the Dublin Penny Journal, on its antiquities - of Burke on its peerage - Simon on its coins, and Croker on its legends - without the local dictionaries of Lewis, Gorton, and Carlisle - without the Surveys of the Dublin Society - without the natural histories of Boate and Berkenhoist - without the exclusions of Fisher, Brewer, and Mrs. Hall on its scener - without having ever seen one of the two hundred quarte manuscript volumes of antiquities by the Ordnance Survey - one of its three thousand manuscript name books; and, worst of all, without one of its ten hundred superb maps - without Thom´s Almanac, Mr. Donnelly´s Returns, the Devon Report, a single census, or a single blue-book - is something like expecting a Prologomena from Lanigan. or his Commentaries from Clarke, without conceding to either a copy of the Septuagint. Those works are the topographical Scriptures of Ireland; and a single glance at any one of them, by the present writer, has not been a possibility during the production of the following pages. The home apothegm of "finding a needle in a bundle of straw." obligingly circumscribes the difficulty by telling where the needle is to he found; but what wizard can tell where Hamilton´s Letters on Antrim - Dubourdien. Giesekie, or Whitehurst on the Giant´s Causeway - Piers on Westmeath - Downing on Mayo - Smith on Cork and Kerry - Ryland on Waterford - Hardiman on Galway - Sampson on Derry, and Grose on Meath, are to be found on the banks of the Ohio? It is a positive fact, that in the neighboring city of Louisville, with a population as large as that of Limerick, there could not be found, last year, a map of Ireland to illustrate, for a moderate audience, a lecture upon the subject of this volume, the artistic substitute having been a barbarous outline of the Irish coast, in chalk, on a blackboard! It is due to the country here undertaken to be portrayed, and it is due to the writer, to have this very qualifying fact set forth; and if the character of the former were not as much involved as that of the latter, the latter would consult his own feelings by withholding, because of its personal complexion, a circumstance still more qualifying. 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.
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