On the 10th at noon we set out, all the officers, Mr. Herne and the Collector on an expedition in the Revenue Sloop to the Islands, and had a most delightful voyage through them to the south west. The sea gains on them and some are almost divided into two; there are fine stones on the shore round them, some of the petrified coral rubbed into pebbles and some of the Mycetites; they are Islands covered with pasturage and some with corn; forty of them belong to Mr. Medlicot, some to the Archbishop of Tuam, some to Mr. Brown of Westport and other proprietors on the bay; they say there are 300 of them, and it is look'd on as the Archipelago in miniature and is a most singular beautiful bay:—At the mouth of it is Clare Island, belonging to the old proprietors the O'Malleys, I was told it was worth £200 a year; to the south west of it is Buffin, belonging as I was informed to Lord Clanrickard and worth £150 a year; they have in these two Islands a pretty breed of small horses: they do not submit to pay any tax but the hearth money, and have good water in them, and so have many of the small Islands. About ten leagues off is a bank, where there are plenty of Cod, and it is supposed that it is part of that bank which extends to Newfoundland, being supposed to be hills in the sea where the fish lie: on this they have