Samuel Hadlock Jr.'s Journal, England, Wales and Ireland, 1822-1823, page 16
The town of Clones + BelyBar those 2 towns are somwhat [somewhat] like Many Badey inhabitid [inhabited] by the pesenterey [peasantry] of Ierland [Ireland] and Containes [contains] 5000 inhabitantes [inhabitants] Chefley [chiefly] of Working people thare [there] sum [some] fine hotelles [hotels] hear [here] As the cotches [coaches] runes [runs] kner [near] hear [here] from london [London] Daney [Londonderry] to Dublin which makes this town little more respectibile [respectable] than the other town the buildinges [buildings] are chefleay [chiefly] built with stone And kuverd [covered] with strow [straw] the poorer sort of houses are built of mud and kuverd [covered] with strow [straw] the catill [cattle] and hoges [hogs] lies in the hous [house] Withe [with] the peple [people] and where thare [their] potatoes is boild [boiled] thay [they] turn them on the table and All staind [stand] round and help theme selves [themselves] till the hogues [hogs] komin [come in] and over turnes [overturn] thare [their] table and spills thare [their] potatoes and the wife sayes [says] Bad luck to your soul will you Be out of that now
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Samuel Hadlock, Jr of Islesford, Maine, documented his travels in England, Ireland, and Wales, where he exhibited a family of Inuit people, and later also Romani people, as entertainment.
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