Clothes remain'd uncorrupted for the ſpace of more than an hundred Years.
As no Stranger coming to this Iſland can avoid being very much ſurprized at the little Care they take to repair thoſe ancient and fine Buildings I have deſcribed, ſo muſt he alſo think them very careleſs both of Intereſt and Reputation, in not erecting any new ones, which might be of preſent Service to themſelves, and future Glory to their Poſterity.
Besides the new Town I have mentioned, built by Macguire of the Kingdom of Ireland, there has no Edifice been erected, ſince, about thirty Years ago, a ſmall College in Caſtle-Town. for the Education of young Gentlemen deſign'd for the Pulpit. But how much it deſerves the Name they give it of a College, may be gathered from what I have ſaid concerning the Learning of their Clergy in general.
Their Markets are kept on Saturdays, but there is little Butcher's Meat to be bought by the ſingle Joint; moſt of the Houſekeepers, who do not bring up Cat-
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