Note 120 — Chapter V
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"I have visited the wasted remnants of the once noble Red Man, on his reservation grounds in North America, and explored the "negro quarter" of the degraded and enslaved African, but never have I seen misery so intense, or physical degradation so complete, as among the dwellers in the bog-holes of Erris."—Visit to Connaught in the Autumn of 1847, by James H. Tuke, of York.