each, and the opposite shore a bold hill, which
rises immediately from the water to a height that renders the whole
magnificent. This is scattered with some wood, and divided into pastures
of a beautiful verdure by hedges. I crossed the water, in order to walk
up the rocks on the top of this hill. In one place, over against
Bilberry quarry, you look immediately down on the river, which flows in
noble reaches from Granny Castle on the right past Cromwell's rock, the
shores on both sides quite steep, especially the rock of Bilberry. You
look over the whole town, which here appears in a triangular form.
Besides the city the Cummeragh mountains, Slein-a-man, etc., come in
view. Kilmacow river falls into the Suir, after flowing through a large
extent of well-planted country. This is the finest view about the city.

From Waterford to Passage, and got my chaise and horses on board the
_Countess of Tyrone_ packet, in full expectation of sailing immediately,
as the wind was fair, but I soon found the difference of these private
vessels and the Post-Office packets at Holyhead and Dublin. When the
wind was fair the tide was foul; and when the tide was with them the wind
would not do. In English, there was not a complement of passengers, and
so I had the agreeableness of waiting with my horses in the hold, by way
of rest, after a journey of above one thousand five hundred miles.

October 18. After a beastly night passed on shipboard, and finding no
signs of departure, walked to Ballycanvan, the seat of Cornelius Bolton,
Esq.; rode with Mr. Bolton, jun., to Faithleghill, which commands one of
the finest views I have seen in Ireland. There is a rock on the top of a
hill which has a very bold view on every side down on a great extent of
country, much of which is grass inclosures of a good verdure. This hill
is the centre of a circle of about ten miles diameter, beyond which
higher lands rise, which, after spreading to a great extent, have on
every side a background of mountain: in a northerly direction Mount
Leinster, between Wexford and Wicklow, twenty-six miles off, rises in
several heads far above the clouds. A little to the right of this,
Sliakeiltha (_i.e._ "the woody mountain"), at a less distance, is a fine
object. To the left, Tory Hill, only five miles, in a regular form,
varies the outline. To the east, there is the Long Mountain, eighteen
miles distant, and several lesser Wexford hills. To the south-east, the