the most northerly province of Ireland. In Latin it is called Ultonia, in Irish Ghi Guilly; and gives the title of earl to the dukes of York of the royal family. It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, St George's Channel and the Irish Sea on the east, the Decalodonian Ocean on the north, and on the south and south-west the provinces of Leinster and Connaught. Its greatest length is near 120 miles, its breadth about 100; and its circumference, including the windings and turnings, 460; containing 9 counties, 58 market-towns and boroughs, 1 archbishopric, 6 bishoprics, and 214 parishes. Ulster abounds in lakes and rivers, which supply it with variety of fine fish, especially salmon, besides what it has from the sea, with which a great part of it is bounded. The southern parts of it are rich, fertile, well cultivated, and inclosed; but the greater part of the northern is open and mountainous.—The towns of this province are in general the neatest and best built of any in Ireland, as well as the farm-houses, which in most parts of the kingdom are constructed of no better materials than clay and straw. The inhabitants of Ulster are also more like the English in their manners and dialect than those of the other three provinces: for as it includes