Sunday.
having spent the morning at Knouth, after Dinner, Cousin S. Dopping and I went on cross the country, in about three hours, to Ardee. The way is mostly in the County of Louth, fine open sheep-walk, all hills and Dales, making from a height a most pleasant prospect, such variety of fine risings, with some few scattered inclosures and Gentlemen's Houses everywhere presenting themselves. Ardee is a compact little Town — a Burrough — and seems to have been once a place of Good strength, for the many strong old castles and Double walls it has. From thence, three hours more Brought us to Dundalk, an ugly Town, and, I think, remarkable in nothing but for an extraordinary good Inn here, as good as most in England.