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THE

IRISH LAND.

BY

GEORGE CAMPBELL,

Of Edenwood, Fife,

CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF THE CENTRAL PROVINCES OF INDIA.

PART I.-A VISIT IN THE SPRING.

PART II.-A VISIT IN THE AUTUMN.

LONDON:

TRÜBNER AND CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.
DUBLIN: HODGES, FOSTER, AND CO.

SAVILL, EDWARDS AND CO., PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

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P R E F A CЕ.

THE first part of this little volume, dated 15th June, was printed at the time in nearly its present shape, and had some private circulation; but I did not feel sufficient confidence to take upon myself to publish it. I rather sought to air, as it were, the facts and ideas which I had brought back from Ireland, and to obtain some good opinions as to their correctness or otherwise. I have since received very encouraging testimony of extremely competent persons as to the general correctness of my view of the facts, and although so much has not been said of the remedy towards which I have pointed, it has been deemed by some not unworthy of consideration. I have been encouraged then, farther to prosecute the inquiry. Meantime the land question has been fully discussed in the press, and some of the statements and suggestions which three months ago were unfamiliar to most Englishmen, have been so prominently put forward that they are no longer strange and unexpected.

I now then venture to submit to the public the