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show an elegant simplicity peculiar to this people. Their burying-ground near the road is surrounded with different trees, whose verdure made us imagine it a well-planted garden, till we were informed otherwise. The hedges that enclose the meadows and fields are quickset, kept of an equal height, and about every ten yards trees regularly pierce through them, forming beautiful groves of a large extent. Industry reigns amongst this happy society; all their works are executed with taste corrected by judgment, and seem to prosper as if Heaven smiled on their honest labours."

I was born in the last month of the year 1758. I suppose when about seven years of age I began to remark the familiar shades under which I grew. I shall attempt a description as I first remember them.

[The general description of the village of Ballitore as it appeared in the year 1766, which here follows in the author's manuscript, is now so inapplicable that it is thought best to omit the few pages it occupies in the "Annals," and to substitute, with some omissions, a poem written by her in the year 1778, which will recall to many of the readers of these volumes some of the beloved scenes and sports of their childhood.]