"All was as still as death"

"All was as still as death"

Travelogues--James Spencer Knox--Lough Derg--Description

Knox describes the deserted scene on Station Island

James Spencer Knox, 1789-1862

Pastoral Annals. By an Irish Clergyman [i.e. James S. Knox], pp. 384

R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, London

1840

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Public domain

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English

Travelogue

DD_0271

54.608689,-7.870387

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"All was as still as death, save that on one or two wave-worn rocks, sat as many old women, telling their beads with exemplary devotion. Their conceptions of piety extended to alms asking, in which exercise they appeared not to be novices; but in my instance they were rather deserving, than successful; and to the honour of their memory be it related, their demonstrations of disappointment were moderate and noiseless."

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