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    A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and its Neighbourhood
    A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and its Neighbourhood
    A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and its Neighbourhood
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    A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and its Neighbourhood

    By Elihu Burritt

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and its Neighbourhood - Elihu Burritt

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      Title: A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and its Neighbourhood

      Author: Elihu Burritt

      Contributor: Joseph Sturge

      Release Date: April 21, 2008 [EBook #25115]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SKIBBEREEN ***

      Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Stephen Blundell and the

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      A JOURNAL

      OF A

      VISIT OF THREE DAYS

      TO

      SKIBBEREEN,

      AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.

      BY ELIHU BURRITT.

      LONDON:

      CHARLES GILPIN, 5, BISHOPGATE-STREET WITHOUT.

      BIRMINGHAM:

      JOHN WHITEHOUSE SHOWELL, 26, UPPER TEMPLE-STREET.

      1847.

      EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL,

      On The Irish Poor Relief Bill, March 12th, 1847.

      A gentleman who lately called upon me, and whom I have every reason to trust, gave me a letter from a person resident in that union (Skibbereen,) stating, that though the property within the union is rated to the poor as being of the value of £8,000 a-year only, its actual value is no less than £130,000 a-year, and that, until September last, no rate had been made exceeding sixpence in the pound, but that, in November, a rate was made of ninepence in the pound; but that rate has never been levied. (Loud cries of 'Hear, hear.')—See The Times of Saturday, March 13.

      Elihu Burritt, well known on both sides of the Atlantic by his devoted labours for the good of mankind, especially in the promotion of peace and universal brotherhood, has recently paid a visit to some of the distressed parts of Ireland, principally with a view of sending a statement of facts, from his own observation, to his native country, together with an appeal on behalf of the sufferers under the awful pressure of famine and disease.

      In this appeal, which was sent to the United States by the last steam packet, Elihu Burritt, speaking of the locality he had visited, says:—"I have come to this indescribable scene of destitution, desolation, and

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