JAMES GRAVES.

Kilkenny.

[Footnote 1: This geographical _morceau_ was nearly equalled by a scribe in

the _Illustrated London News_, who stated that her Gracious Majesty's

steam-yacht, with its royal freight and attendant squadron, when coasting

round from Cork to Dublin in the year 1849, had entered Tramore Bay, and

thence steamed up to Passage in the Waterford Harbour! A truly _royal road_

to safety; and one that, did it exist, would have saved many a gallant crew

and ship, which have met their fate within the landlocked, but ironbound

and shelterless, jaws of Tramore Bay.]

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