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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ... the river rcccives the name of the Avoca. The liver marked Isis the Augriin (us descending from a mountain village so called) or the Perry, and sometimes the Avon-hue, or yellow river, from being joined by a brook n, out of the goldinine district; and which together fall into the Avoca at F. i The locality where it is said the poet composed his verscs--and wheres cottage stands, upon the sloping bank ofrwhich they are supposed to have been written--is marked 0. Butas there are two meetings of the watcrs--atc and at 1---the question has been which " meeting " is entitled to tho honour---a difiiculty which Mr. Moore is himself said to have settled by according it to c. Mr. Crokcr adds, however, and upon "the safest authority, " no one can doubt, from the internal evidence, as well as the external polish, of the verscsjn question, that although the ideas they contain may have occurred to the poct's mind in the vale of Avoca, they were the product of a subsequent period, when the memory of a happy visit came mellowed upon the 'heart; and must have proceeded from a recollection of the, general effect of the whole valley, rather than a vivid sensation excited by any particular spot." And this is the true reading; for taking, in the whole scene, " There is not in the wide world s valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet." Mr. Moore, in a note to the poem--one of the " Irish Mclodics"--sLitcs, that the verses were " suggested by ever, the opening to a scene of exceeding loveliness; " a valley so sweet," as scarcely to require the poet's aid to induce a belief that nothing in " the wide world " can surpass it in grandeur and beauty. The visito...