ct. 17. 1689.]

[Footnote 120: King, iii. 2. I cannot find that Charles Leslie, who was
zealous on the other side, has, in his Answer to King, contradicted any
of these facts. Indeed Leslie gives up Tyrconnel's administration. "I
desire to obviate one objection which I know will be made, as if I were
about wholly to vindicate all that the Lord Tyrconnel and other of
King James's ministers have done in Ireland, especially before this
revolution began, and which most of any thing brought it on. No; I am
far from it. I am sensible that their carriage in many particulars
gave greater occasion to King James's enemies than all the other in
maladministrations which were charged upon his government." Leslie's
Answer to King, 1692.]

[Footnote 121: A True and Impartial Account of the most material
Passages in Ireland since December 1688, by a Gentleman who was an
Eyewitness; licensed July 22. 1689.]

[Footnote 122: True and Impartial Account, 1689; Leslie's Answer to
King, 1692.]

[Footnote 123: There have been in the neighbourhood of Killarney
specimens of the arbutus thirty feet high and four feet and a half
round. See the Philosophical Transactions, 227.]

[Footnote 124: In a very full account of the British isles published at
Nuremberg in 1690 Kerry is described as "an vielen Orten unwegsam
und voller Wilder and Geburge." Wolves still infested Ireland. "Kein
schadlich Thier ist da, ausserhalb Wolff and Fuchse." So late as the
year 1710 money was levied on presentments of the Grand Jury of Kerry
for the destruction of wolves in that county. See Smith's Ancient and
Modern State of the County of Kerry, 1756. I do not know that I have
ever met with a better book of the kind and of the size. In a poem
published as late as 1719, and entitled Macdermot, or the Irish Fortune
Hunter, in six cantos, wolfhunting and wolfspearing are represented
as common sports in Munster. In William's reign Ireland was sometimes
called by the nickname of Wolfland. Thus in a poem on the battle of La
Vogue, called Advice to a Painter, the terror of the Irish army is thus
described

"A chilling damp
And Wolfland howl runs thro' the rising camp."]

[Footnote 125: Smith's Ancient and Modern State of Kerry.]

[Footnote 126: Exact Relation of the Persecutions, Robberies, and
Losses, sustained by the Protestants of Killmare in Ireland, 1689;
Smith's Ancient and Modern State of Kerry, 1756.]

[Footnote 127: Ireland's Lamentation, licensed