BY THE AUTHOR OF " PORTUGAL," &c.

LONDON:

BLIOZ

PRINTED FOR HARVEY AND DARTON,

GRACECHURCH STREET.

1831.

198.

LONDON:

J. Rickerby, Printer, Sherbourn Lane.

PREFACE.

66

THE favourable reception which The Young Travellers in Portugal," have met with from the public, has induced me to offer to its indulgent acceptance another Tour, made by the same party. The recurrence of the same names and persons will, it is hoped, give additional interest to the following details; and the young readers meet again, with pleasure, their former favourites, through whose eyes, according to Cowper, they have already travelled to a distant

country, and with whom they are again about to explore some of the most interesting parts of the united kingdom.

"He travels and expatiates-as the bee

From flower to flower, so he from land to land;
The manners, customs, policy of all,

Pay contribution to the store he gleans:
He sucks intelligence in every clime,
And spreads the honey of his deep research
At his return-a rich repast for me.
He travels and I too. I tread his deck,
Ascend his topmast, through his peering eyes
Discover countries, with a kindred heart
Suffer his woes, and share in his escapes;
While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home."

Task, Book iv.

I have now only to mention, that in speaking of the popular superstitions of Ireland, I have availed myself of a small work called "Fairy Legends," which has excited universal interest, and given general pleasure. To the