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"I at length reached the goal of my long-nourished desire"

Knox describes the scene of crowds waiting to cross to Station Island

Tags: boating, crowds, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, Protestant critique, Travelogue

"I do not think even Paddy could do much in protecting this lake"

"'And as parliament is usually dead slow,' added the Captain, 'it is much to be wished that Paddy, in the meanwhile, would take the affair [of Otter fishing] into his own hands : he is just the boy to do it well.'…"

Tags: colonialism, conversation, debate, fishing, Henry Newland, Irish identity, lake, legislation, memoir, nineteenth century, otters, overfishing, upper lake

"I felt ashamed for human nature"

"In a short time I arrived at the island, and as stepping out of the boat, I planted my foot on the rocks of this scene of human absurdity..."

Tags: Caesar Otway, landscape, negative, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, St. Patrick, Station Island

"I gazed on the distant borders of the Lake"

Knox muses on the link between agriculture and spiritual rectitude

Tags: agriculture, cultivation, James Spencer Knox, morality, nineteenth century, parable, Protestant critique, Travelogue, upper lake

"I had long experienced extreme anxiety to visit"

Knox describes the circumstances of his arrival

Tags: James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, rain, Station Island, Travelogue, weather

"I insisted that they should take me to an island"

Knox wishes to visit an island in the upper lake

Tags: boating, boatmen, elitism, islands, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Travelogue, upper lake

"If I had my will, every otter-fisher should be solemnly ducked"

"'If ever an otter is admissible,' said the Parson,' it is so on such a lake as this. You certainly never get a day's fair fishing here.'…"

Tags: British Parliament, conversation, fauna, fishing, Henry Newland, lake, legislation, memoir, nineteenth century, otters, overfishing, upper lake

"In media lacus"

"This shews that Saints island is the one on which the monastery, because the present station does not contain 10 acres. There is however a mistake in the phrase 'in media lacus' for Saints island is very near the land…"

Tags: etymology, John O'Donovan, Latin, letters, movement of Purgatory, nineteenth century, ordnance survey, origin of purgatory, purgatory, Saints' Island, Station Island

"In nine cases out of ten, the legend is simply an attempt made by an unlettered, but imaginative people, to account for natural appearances by supernatural agency"

A description of the power given to unexplained natural phenomena in Irish folklore, and the character of the storytellers

Tags: colonialism, conversation, debate, dispute, fishing, Folklore, Henry Newland, Irish identity, memoir, mythology, negative description, nineteenth century, superstition, upper lake

"Multitudes of the lower classes of the native Irish"

On the crowds of pilgrims travelling to the site and their motivations

Tags: Catholicism, class, elitism, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Protestantism, Travelogue

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