The "wine" of Station Island

The "wine" of Station Island

Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--History--Account

"In all, the pilgrims remain on the island nine days—they eat but once in the twenty-four hours, of oatmeal and water—they have liberty to refresh themselves with the water of the lake..."

Caesar Otway, 1780-1842

Otway, Caesar, Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting, and Hitherto Unnoticed Districts, in the North and South, p. 159

W. Curry, jun. and co.; [etc., etc.], Dublin; First published, in part, in the Christian examiner. cf. Pref. A series of letters signed "C. O.", the first four entitled "Sketches in Donegal", the last five "Sketches in the south of Ireland."

1827

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1 p., ℓ., iv, vi, 411 p. 19 cm.

English

Description and travel

Text

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066646450

"In all, the pilgrims remain on the island nine days—they eat but once in the twenty- four hours, of oatmeal and water—they have liberty to refresh themselves with the water of the lake, which, as Roth says, 'is of such virtue that though thou shouldst fill thyself with it, yet will it not offend; but is as if it flowed from some mineral.'"

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