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Rh 104 miles. He was much affronted that a young fellow was proposed for the expedition There's a county Cavan man for you.

As for myself, I am grown thirty years younger, by no other method than eating, drinking, and breathing freely in this Elysium of the universe. Happy will it be for you (if I misjudge not, and very seldom I do, as you yourself can witness, who have known me above sixteen years, and I believe a little more, if my memory fails me not, as I have no reason to think it does; for I do not find it in the least impaired) to convey yourself into the finest apartment of our Elysium, I mean to Castle Hamilton, where you will find a most hearty welcome, and all the delights this world can give But you must take me along with you.

Nothing could give me greater pleasure than to hear that your innocent subjects of the Kevin Bayl escaped the gallows, in spite of Bettisworth and all his add hay rents If he were to make them a holiday, it should make one for me and my boys likewise.

Sunday we had a very hard frost Yesterday morning fair  The afternoon, all night, and this morning to ten, was rain  Now fair again, but lowering.

We are just now going to dinner at captain Perott's, Rh