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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SAINT PATRICK'S PURGATORY.1 1850.] a handkerchief round your head, and you'll pass -- everywhere without question.' I declining, however, to adopt this counterfeit presentment of a Pilgrim, my companion resumed, ' You will at least be careful not to show any disrespect, nor pry too much into what you may see going on around you.' I assured him it was far from me to insult my neighbours in their conscientious observances, and, furthermore, promised to restrain my curiosity within moderate bounds; whereupon we made arrangements to visit together that celebrated place of Eoman Catholic pilgrimage existing on an island, Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland; to which sometimes as many as fifteen thousand people are said to repair for penance in a season, extending from the first of June to the fifteenth of August in each year. After a drive of about two hours, chiefly along the shore of Lough Erne, wide sweeps of still water, broken by woody promontories, with cliffs wearing their velvety summer green, and streaked with changeable sunlights in the background, opening and closing upon us successively as we pursued the 1 Perhaps the only account in existence of this famous place in station- time, by a non-pilgrim eye-witness, ivith the course of things proceeding uninterrupted. winding road, we turned northwards, and, passing through the village of Pettigo, entered upon a bleaker region, where the road became gradually worse, the huts poorer and less frequent, the patches of oats more scraggy and unfenced, and the land boggier and browner; until at last the view on every side presented nothing but dark stony hills, marsh at their feet and rough heather on their sides, among which lay here and there a very few miserable cottages, scarcely distinguishable from the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217414357 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217414354 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $17.97 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 158 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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