Practical Suggestions on the General Improvement of the Navigation of the Shannon Between Limerick and the Atlantic: And More Particularly of that Part of it Named by Pilots the Narrows : with Some Remarks Intended to Create a Doubt of the Fairness of Not Keeping Faith with the Irish Roman Catholics After They Had Been Lured Into a Surrender of Limerick (their Principal Fortress) by a Treaty |
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