Had there been a resident landlord in the place, to interest himself in the welfare of his tenants, a few pounds would have procured all that was necessary, and the people, always grateful for kindness, would long have remembered the boon and the bestower of it.
[55] _Commerce_.--"Phoenices a vetustissimis inde temporibus frequenter crebras mercaturae gratia navigationes instituerunt."-- Diod.

Sic.

vers.
Wesseling, t.i.
[56] _Confessio_ .-- Dr.O'Donovan states, in an article in the _Ulster Archaeological Journal_, vol.viii.p.

249, that he had a letter from the late Dr.Prichard, who stated that it was his belief the ancient Irish were not anthropophagi.

He adds: "Whatever they may have been when their island was called _Insula Sacra_, there are no people in Europe who are more squeamish in the use of meats than the modern Irish peasantry, for they have a horror of every kind of carrion;" albeit he is obliged to confess that, though they abuse the French for eating frogs, and the English for eating rooks, there is evidence to prove that horseflesh was eaten in Ireland, even in the reign of Queen Elizabeth..