In a journey of forty miles Avaux counted only three miserable cabins.

Every thing else was rock, bog, and moor.

When at length the travellers reached Omagh, they found it in ruins.

The Protestants, who were the majority of the inhabitants, had abandoned it, leaving not a wisp of straw nor a cask of liquor.

The windows had been broken: the chimneys had been beaten in: the very locks and bolts of the doors had been carried away, [190] Avaux had never ceased to press the King to return to Dublin; but these expostulations had hitherto produced no effect.