er to get a thorough view of
it. This procedure was all the more remarkable from the fact,
as above mentioned, that the season was winter. I believe that
there was snow on the ground at the time. My friend noticed on
meeting him again in the course of the same walk that he was
very lightly clothed. He had on a cotton shirt, a loose open
jacket, and on the whole was evidently indifferent to the
rigour of our northern climate at that time of the year.

In addition to the visit to Belfast in 1866, Borrow was in Ireland the
year following his Scots tour of 1858, that is to say from July to
November 1859. He went, accompanied by his wife and daughter, by
Holyhead to Dublin, where, as Dr. Knapp has discovered, they resided at
75 St. Stephen Green, South. Borrow, as was his custom, left his family
while he was on a walking tour which included Connemara and on northward
to the Giant's Causeway. He was keenly interested in the two Societies
in Dublin engaged upon the study of ancient Irish literature, and he
became a member of the Ossianic Society in July of this year. I have a
number of Borrow's translations from the Irish in my possession, but no
notebooks of his tour on this occasion.

All Irishmen who wish their country to preserve its individuality should
have a kindly feeling for George Borrow. Opposed as he was to the
majority of the people in religion and in politics, he was about the
only Englishman of his time who took an interest in their national
literature, language and folk-lore. Had he written such another travel
book about Ireland as he wrote about Wales he would certainly have added
to the sum of human pleasure.

I find only one letter to his wife during this Irish journey:

To Mrs. George Borrow

BALLINA, COUNTY MAYO, _Thursday Morning._

MY DEAR CARRETA,--I write to you a few lines. I have now walked
270 miles, and have passed through Leinster and Connaught. I
have suffered a good deal of hardship, for this is a very
different country to walk in from England. The food is bad and
does not agree with me. I shall be glad to get back, but first
of all I wish to walk to the Causeway. As soon as I have done
that I shall get on railroad and return, as I find there is a
railroad from Londonderry to Dublin. Pray direct to me at Post
Office, Londonderry. I have at present about seven pounds
remaining, perhaps it