A Memoir, Explanatory of the Chart and Survey of the County of London-Derry, Ireland (Classic Reprint)

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from A Memoir, Explanatory of the Chart and Survey of the County of London-Derry, Ireland When Ireland seemed devoted to political parties, withheld neither by true wisdom nor by kind feelings, when all interference seemed full of danger and void of hope, the author formed the design of abstracting his thoughts from public transactions, and of bending them on the studies of inanimate nature. In this pursuit, materials were collected for the natural history of his native county, a part of this collection was placed in the hands of a respected member of the Dublin Society, and this, with other accompanying remarks, too hastily thrown together, was published, in 1808, under the title of a "Statistical Survey of the County of London-Derry." The imperfections of this work did not escape the author, and, in consequence, a design was formed that, on some future occasion, if possible, these defects should be redeemed. In 1809 the worshipful Company of Fishmongers sent over, to visit their estate in the county of London-Derry, three gentlemen of excellent judgment and patriotic views: They were pleased to honour the author with a visit, and to favour him with their confidence. In various conversations, it was suggested that if a Chart of Territory could be combined with a Topographical Map, on an extended scale, it would be a most useful acquisition for the proprietors of the county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.