 In the west of Ireland, there are districts where a man may imagine himself in a wilderness abandoned by mankind, where nothing is to be seen but rocks, bogs, and brushwood, and where wild beasts alone may be supposed capable of housing. All at once,...  Ireland: Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick, Cork, and the Kilkenny Races, the ... - Page 6by Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 115 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 438 pages
...Dublin, or that an inhabited and cultivated land cau present a still wilder aspect than the rich corn plains of Meath, Kildare, and Westmeath. In the west of Ireland there are tracts where one might often suppose himself in a wilderness, deserted by God and man — where all... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - 1846 - 472 pages
...foreigner, who thus expresses his astonishment at the first sight of some Connaught cabins : — " In the west of Ireland there are districts where a...wilderness abandoned by mankind, — where nothing is to be seen but rocks, bogs, and brushwood, and where wild beasts alone may be supposed capable of housing.... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - 1846 - 470 pages
...who thus expresses his astonishment at the first sight of some Connaught cabins : — " In the Avest of Ireland there are districts where a man may imagine...wilderness abandoned by mankind, — where nothing is to be seen but rocks, bogs, and brushwood, and where wild beasts alone may be supposed capable of housing.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 550 pages
...German traveller, JG Kohl, gives the following account of the habitations of these poor wretches. " In the west of Ireland, there are districts where...wilderness abandoned by mankind, where nothing is to be seen but rocks, bogs, and brushwood, and where wild beasts alone may be supposed capable of housing.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 546 pages
...German traveller, JG Kohl, gives the following account of the habitations of these poor wretches. " In the west of Ireland, there are districts where...wilderness abandoned by mankind, where nothing is to be seen but rocks, bogs, and brushwood, and where wild beasts alone may be supposed capable of housing.... | |
 | 1853 - 776 pages
...— as we perceive by the very lato-st work published concerning it, by Sir F. Head. Eohl says : " In the west of Ireland, there are districts where...wilderness, abandoned by mankind; where nothing is to be seen but rocks, bogs, and brushwood, and where wild beasts alone may be supposed capable of housing.... | |
 | Joel Mokyr - 2006 - 352 pages
...for example, that "until one has seen the west of Ireland he has no idea that human beings can live in a state of greater misery than in the fertile environs...corn-abounding plains of Meath, Kildare, and Westmeath". The occasional Irishman abroad made similar observations. AH Lynch (1839, p. 86) wrote that "an Irishman... | |
 | 1853 - 792 pages
...as we perceive by the very latest work published concerning it, by Sir F. Head. Kohl says : " In ihe west of Ireland, there are districts where a man may...wilderness, abandoned by mankind ; where nothing is to be seen but rocks, bogs, and brushwood, and where wild beasts alone may be supposed capable of housing.... | |
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