NO I.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Although tale-bearing travellers, who, for the sake of furnishing themselves with materials for book-making in this age of folios and quartos, or with gossip for a season, might have chanced to pay a flying visit to the land of Paddies and potatoes, and in the fulness of their fancy represented us as the most idle, good for nothing pack of savages that could well exist on any habitable globe, and from the sight of a rale boy, from the wilds and fastnesses of Connemara, crossing the briny wave to seek for the price of the boneen, and the rent against Lady Day, pictured to themselves the condition of our entire population, abiding by the sweeping recommendation ex uno, disce omnes; yet, thanks to the present facilities of conveyance arising from the application of the giant power, steam, to master the foaming surges and wild winds, these visions recede rapidly from public view, and we daily rise in the estimation of our more fortunate fellow-countrymen, since they have begun to open their eyes to the truth, that we (hitherto "wild Irish") are possessed of certain useful cranial developments, deserve a rank in the creation above the brutes, and to be classed as the "Sanctlus his animal, mentisque capacius alter.