Friday, Saturday, Sunday, & Monday, 23, 24, 25, & 26. — On Saturday We rode from Brea to Castle-Dermot, 4 Miles; to Burton Hall, 2 Miles. Kilkai, Mr Dickson's, an ancient Castle, is before ye town of Castle-Dermot, as You go out from which is ye large Shell & Tower of a Religious house.37 We had seen this Mr Dickson at Colonel Nevil's in ye begining of ye Month. Burton hall, ye Seat of Alderman Burton of Dublin, is a stone house, commanding good Prospects; ye Apartments but small; in ye Hall is a Painting of Curtius leaping into ye Gulf; tho' but coarse, yet two of ye figures deserve notice; One man so struck with horror, as not to be able to bear ye Sight, Stretching-out his hand with detestation, & averting his head; an other, in wild amaze, almost stiffens at ye sight, his Eyes all ye while fix'd full upon ye Hero. The Gardens are handsome; ye Water-works, tho' not large, are very pretty; wide shady Walks between Trees; a Park beyond ye Gardens. A Kitchen-Garden & Fruitery to ye front of ye house. We return'd to dinner to Colonel Nevil's, who din'd with Us ye day before, when We had also ye company of Mr Henry Bumbery's Lady, of Mrs Spenser, & 3 of ye Plunkets her Neices, who indeed were with her, when We din'd at