Excerpt from The Potato Blight in Ireland: A Plain Statement of Facts Collected From Various Independent Authorities Mr. Jackson and General Sankey drove in a waggonette over a beautiful public road that leads through a tract cf moorland beyond the inhabited portions oi Gweedore, halted for luncheon at the Gweedore hotel, resumed their journey, and passed out of Gweedore without seeing Gweedore at all, or the state of its crop. And I am told that they have said that reports regarding the blight are exaggerated I They may say what they like, but it is well for the public to know that they have not seen the district. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.