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This country is in general beautiful, but particularly so about the
straits that lead into Strangford Loch. From Mr. Savage's door the view
has great variety. To the left are tracts of hilly grounds, between
which the sea appears, and the vast chain of mountains in the Isle of Man
distinctly seen. In front the hills rise in a beautiful outline, and a
round hill projects like a promontory into the strait, and under it the
town amidst groups of trees; the scene is cheerful of itself, but
rendered doubly so by the ships and herring-boats sailing in and out. To
the right the view is crowned by the mountains of Mourne, which, wherever
seen, are of a character peculiarly bold, and even terrific. The shores
of the loch behind Mr. Savage's are bold ground, abounding with numerous
pleasing landscapes; the opposite coast, consisting of the woods and
improvements of Castle Ward, is a fine scenery.

Called at Lord Bangor's, at Castle Ward, to deliver a letter of
recommendations but unfortunately he was on a sailing party to England;
walked through the woods, etc. The house was built by the present lord.
It is a very handsome edifice, with two principal fronts, but not of the
same architecture, for the one is Gothic and the other Grecian. From the
temple is a fine wooded scene: you look down on a glen of wood, with a
winding hill quite covered with it, and which breaks the view of a large
bay. Over it appears the peninsula of Strangford, which consists of
enclosures and wood. To the right the bay is bounded by a fine grove,
which projects into it. A ship at anchor added much. The house well
situated above several rising woods; the whole scene a fine one. I
remarked in Lord Bangor's domains a fine field of turnips, but unhoed.
There were some cabbages also.

Belfast is a very well built town of brick, they having no stone quarry
in the neighbourhood. The streets are broad and straight, and the
inhabitants, amounting to about fifteen thousand, make it appear lively
and busy. The public buildings are not numerous nor very striking, but
over the exchange Lord Donegal is building an assembly room, sixty feet
long by thirty broad, and twenty-four high; a very elegant room. A
card-room adjoining, thirty by twenty-two, and twenty-two high; a
tea-room of the same size. His lordship is also building a new church,
which is one of the lightest and most pleasing I have anywhere seen: it
is seventy-four by fifty-four, and th