Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin ... with historical descriptions / Delineated by Robert Pool and John Cash.

Cash, John.

Date:: 1780

Credit: Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin ... with historical descriptions / Delineated by Robert Pool and John Cash. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$tending about three miles into the bay. This great and laudable work was executed in confequence of a ftatute made in the 6th of Queen Anne, chap. 2. called the ballaft aft. At the end of the Piles, there is a Light-houfe erefted, curioufly conftruft- ed of hewn ftone. The approach to the City from the harbour exhibits one of the moft beautiful prof- pefts imagination can form an idea of: It is a fpa- cious amphitheatre, bounded moftly by a high fhore; and the Country all round, is fpangled with white villas, which when irradiated by the Sun, has a glorious efteft. The City is not feen to advantage from the water, yet the landfcape is highly pic- turefque, being horizoned on the fouth by moun- tains, exaftly conical, called the Sugar-loaf-hills; and on the north, by the pleaftng contrail of an extenlive plain, cloathed with the moft liberal pro- ductions of nature, and enriched by the united ef- forts of art. The view of the City, from the top of a Stee- ple, or any elevated fttuation, is the moft beauti- ful, of any at large, in the dominions of Great- Britain, in a fimilar point of view, from the neat- nefs of the blue Hating, with which the houfes are univerfallv \$