she was made for, her reply was," she supposed to please the gentlemen." His friend intimating his surprise, that he should have had communications with street-walkers, implying a suspicion that they were not of a moral tendency, Johnson expressed the highest indignation that any other motive could ever be suspected.

CHANCELLOR OF ST. MACARTin's, Clogher.

First published by Samuel Raymond, M.A., Sydney, New South Wales, 1854.

DIARY OF A VISIT TO ENGLAND.1

FEBRUARY 23rd, 1775.

I went aboard the Besborough

pacquet, and weighed anchor at five in the evening, and landed at Holyhead at eight o'clock next morning, which was very foggy and hazy. The passage was on a very pacific sea, sơ that I was so little affected with sickness, as to lament the want of that substitute for hippo. Here we breakfasted, and the eggs were so small, that I had curiosity to measure them, and the largest diameter was an inch and three-quarters. Here is a odd old church, in the form of a cross, in the yard of which Flood and Agar fought, about seven years ago; but the feud did not end there, Agar at length fell by his antagonist, A.D. 1769. The folks at the Inn told me that the weather had been generally hazy for a month past, and they expected it would be so till March. They had but two or three days of frost last winter. say, it is always foggy when the wind is at south.

The sailors

The church

is, on the outside, of an H-like figure, i.e. the old part, which is not ugly, and seems the remains of something greater; there is an addition however of modern work.

From Holyhead to Bangor is a country, not unlike that about Virginia, in the County Cavan: as you approach Bangor ferry the prospect brightens, and becomes agreeably varied with hill, and dale, and sea: but the first view of Bangor itself is so transcendantly beautiful, that it beggars the richness of words. I never was so wrapped with surprise, as when this lovely vista struck my ravished sight; and every step I took, so altered the

By the "Irish Dr. Campbell" of Boswell's Life, vol. ii., pp. 310, 313, 318. See appendix to vol. ii. for an account of Campbell, his relations. with Johnson, and the discovery of this Diary.-Editor.