The population has also largely increased.

When I visited Belfast in 1840, the town contained 75,000 inhabitants.

They are now over 225,006, or more than trebled,--Belfast being the tenth town, in point of population, in the United Kingdom.
The spirit and enterprise of the people are illustrated by the variety of their occupations.

They do not confine themselves to one branch of business; but their energies overflow into nearly every department of industry.

Their linen manufacture is of world-wide fame; but much less known are their more recent enterprises.