Note 33 — Chapter I · [1] FROM THE FOUNDATION TO THE CAROLINE CHARTER.

“There is to be seen here (S. Stephen’s Green), during the winter, an incredible number of snipes, invited by the swampiness of the Green during that season, and to avoid their enemies the sportsmen: this is an agreeable and most uncommon circumstance not to be met with, perhaps, in any other great city in the world.”—Harris’s History of Dublin (1766), p. 481, note.