A sea view and rock
piece, by Vernet. A small flagellation, by Sebastian del Piombo. A
Madonna and Child, small, by Rubens. The Crucifixion, many figures in
miniature, excellent, though the master is unknown. An excellent copy of
the famous Danae of Titian, at Monte Cavallo, near Naples, by Cioffi of
Naples. Another of the Venus of Titian, at the Tribuna in Florence.
Another of Venus blinding Cupid, by Titian, at the Palazzo Borghese in
Rome. Another of great merit of the Madonna della Sedia of Raphael, at
the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, by Stirn, a German, lately at Rome.
Another of a Holy Family, from Raphael, of which there are said to be
three originals, one at the king's palace in Naples, one in the Palais
Royal in Paris, and the third in the collection of Lord Exeter, lately
purchased at Rome. A portrait of Sir Patrick Trent, by Sir P. Lely. An
excellent portrait of a person unknown, by Dahl.

September 17. To Castlemartyr, the seat of the Earl of Shannon, one of
the most distinguished improvers in Ireland; in whom I found the most
earnest desire to give me every species of information, with a knowledge
and ability which enabled him to do it most effectually. Passed through
Middleton, a well-built place, which belongs to the noble lord to whom it
gives title. Castlemartyr is an old house, but much added to by the
present earl; he has built, besides other rooms, a dining one thirty-two
feet long by twenty-two broad, and a drawing one, the best rooms I have
seen in Ireland, a double cube of twenty-five feet, being fifty long,
twenty-five broad, and twenty-five high. The grounds about the house are
very well laid out; much wood well grown, considerable lawns, a river
made to wind through them in a beautiful manner, an old castle so
perfectly covered with ivy as to be a picturesque object. A winding walk
leads for a considerable distance along the banks of this river, and
presents several pleasing landscapes.

From Rostellan to Lota, the seat of Frederick Rogers, Esq. I had before
seen it in the highest perfection from the water going from Dunkettle to
Cove, and from the grounds of Dunkettle. Mrs. Rogers was so obliging as
to show me the back grounds, which are admirably wooded, and of a fine
varied surface.

Got to Cork in the evening, and waited on the Dean, who received me with
the most flattering attention. Cork is one of the most populous places I
have ever been in; it was market-day, and I coul