Lately those two pieces of ground have been
re-exchanged, and when they came to be measured, they were found to be
of exactly the same extent.
[24] The coming of the thaw was indicated by some accidents on the ice.
Under date 10th Feb. it was reported from Derry that the ice gave way
there, and several persons were drowned. In Dublin, at the same date, a
man was also drowned who attempted to cross the river on the ice near
the Old Bridge. But a boy was more fortunate. He, too, was on the ice on
the Liffey, and the part on which he stood becoming detached was driven
by the current through Ormond and Essex Bridges; he kept his position,
however, on the floating ice till he was taken off in a boat.
[25] The following story is told in _Pue's Occurrences_, in May,
1740:--A broguemaker had been committed to Dungannon jail for some
offence, but managed to make his escape. He was pursued and searched for
in vain. The jailer gave him up as lost when, one day, after being at
large during five weeks, he presented himself at the jail to the
astonishment of the jailer, who questioned him as to the cause of his
return. He replied, that he had travelled to Dublin, and had gone
through a great part of Munster, but finding nowhere such good quarters
as he had in Dungannon jail, he came back.
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