The Irish Tourist - In a Series of Picturesque Views, Travelling Incidents, and Observations, Statistical, Political and Moral on the Character and Aspect of the Irish Nation #272359

The Author of this work (the materials of which have been collected at an expence of health and ease, as well as of time and money, but little known to those who reside under ceiled canopies,) being anxious to accommodate this volume, in the article of expence, to the convenience of persons of limited fortune, found it necessary, in the progress of his tour, in order to qualify himself for this sacrifice, to make an appeal to the consideration of the rank and property of his country; an appeal, which, in many instances, being felt and honoured by those to whom it was made, he deems it a debt of gratitude due to those benevolent characters, to place opposite their names, a mark, by which their liberality may be distinguished; and in the performance of this duty, so justly due to those by whose generous assistance, in aid of his own limited resources, he has been enabled to accomplish this object, he is far from being influenced by an intention to admister offence to others. The writers limited fortune, and the large sums which he unavoidably expended in a course of 6,000 miles travel (in comparison of which, all the other expences of this publication, though serious, were but small) rendered this appeal unavoidable, and to acknowledge the proportion in which it was received and honoured by his Subscribers, appears to him to be a debt, not only of gratitude, but of justice. The figures prefixed to the names of Subscribers, have, therefore, the following signification: The figure 1, signifies the first class, or largest measure of subscription, contributed to the expences of this work - the figure 2, the second; and so on to the least measure of subscription, adapted to individual convenience, and to the more general circulation of this volume.