A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the Change in Religious Opinion

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Excerpt from A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the Change in Religious Opinion: Now Taking Place in Dingle, and the West of the County of Kerry, IrelandFifteen years since, the writer of these pages first visited Dingle, as a tourist, the majestic scenery of this neighbourhood attracted some adventurous spirits even then, to explore its wilds. The roads had he come nearly impassable for any conveyance better than a car or Irish dray.The post was conveyed by foot-carriers, one man starting from Tralee, and the other from Dingle, and trotting at a pace which is very commonly practised by activeboys in Ireland, of between four and five English miles an hour, they met half way, by apass over the mountain, exchanged bags, and each trotted back to their respective towns, having accomplished a dis tance of fifteen English miles forward, and the same back, they did this every day, winter and summer, for which they received the pittance of seven shillings per week. I give this as an instance of the extreme backwardness of this spot, so lately as the year 1830. In this year, however, improvement commenced, a good road was carried along both sides of the range of mountains, - as may be seen in the map, - that on the northern side passing over the Conner, and open ing up a truly romantic and beautiful country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.