Eminent The union has produced three authors, sons of the Rev. Thomas Crawford,* the venerable and respected dissent ing minister of Crumlin for 58 years, by his wife Anne Mc. Cay, sister to the mother of Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, authoress of "The Modern Philosophers," and other celebrated works. The eldest son, Dr. William Crawford, was a man of considerable learning, and great application. About the year 1769 he published remarks on Chesterfield's letters, which gain. ed him much reputation as a sound moralist, and good critic; and in some of the colleges, particularly Oxford, was put into the hands of the students as an antidote to the poison contained in that profligate work. In 1778, he published a translation of Turretine's Dissertation on Natural Theology, in two volumes. About the year 1780 he published a short History of Ireland, in letters. He died minister of the Presbyterian congregation in Hollywood, in 1801. His life was not only blameless, but actively employed in doing good. John Crawford, the second son, was a surgeon in the service of the East India Company for many years. In an essay, dedicated to Sir George Colebrooke in the year 1769, he details the success of his practice, by the employment of mercury, which has since been generally adopted, and almost considered as a panacea in the liver complaints of that country. He died in the year 1813, at Baltimore, in America. The third son, Adair Crawford, was bred a physician, and practised in London. Few men during his short life, acquired more celebrity. He published an Experimental Essay on Animal Heat, which attracted These gentlemen were born in the townland of Ballytromery, in the parish of Camlin. the attention of all the philosophers of Europe, and has been translated into many of the modern languages. He published besides, in the Transactions of the Royal Society, of which he was a member, an explanation of the power in animals to resist very high degrees of heat, written in consequence of the well-known experiments made by Doctors Fordyce and Solander, in a heated room; an Essay on the Matter of Cancer; and another on the medical Effects of Muriate of Barytes. Be sides these he left a posthumous work, an experimental inquiry into the nature of the cohesion of the animal fibre; which will be immediately published by his younger and surviving brother, Doctor Alexander Crawford, an eminent physician at Lisburn. This ingenious, learned, and amiable man died of a consumption, occasioned by intense application to his literary and professional pursuits, at Lymington, in Hampshire, in the year 1795. A List of the Incumbents of the Union, from the Incum year 1622. Meredith Gwyllims, 1622 | Anthony Welsh, This gentleman was afterwards archideacon of Down, and vicar-general of the dioceses of Down and Connor; and was deprived in the year 1693, by the celebrated Lisburn Commission, upon which he published a long and learned argument in 4to, in the year 1704.- Quod vide, bents. XII. Suggestions for Improvement, and Means for me liorating the Condition of the People. The deficiencies in improvement are such as are common to this province. A general adoption of the new system of education is wanted. A law to enable magistrates to abolish cock-fighting, would tend much to the preservation of the morals of the people. This practice gives them dissolute habits, detaches them from their business, brutalizes their minds, and involves them in all the consequences of intemperance and debauchery. It would conduce to the health of the poorer classes, if they constructed the windows of their cabins so as to allow ventilation; and occasionally whitewashed the walls within. The soil would derive advantage from a more extensive introduction of English and Scotch improvements in agriculture; and its surface would assume additional beauty, by a more general attention to planting. APPENDIX. Containing the several Tables following: 1. Names of Townlands, with their Derivations and English names. 2. Acreable contents of Townlands, with numbers of reference to the map. 3. Reference to the houses on the map. 4. Register of Baptisms, Burials, and Marriages. 5. Sirnames of the Inhabitants. 6. List of Birds frequenting Lough Neagh. 7. Population Tables. 8. Diary of the Weather on the Northern coast of the County of Antrim 9. Epitaph on Adair Crawford, Esq. M. D. F. R. S. REFERENCE TO HOUSES AND BUILDINGS IN THE MAY. A Gore Mount,-Wm. Gore, Esq. B Messrs. Forsythe & Co's. Cotton Manufactory. CC Ballyminimore,-Messrs. Oakmans. D Ballypitmave,-Mr. John Murray. E F Glenconway,--Stafford Whittle, Esq. Pigeon-town,-Messrs. Mc Niece, Oakman, & Sloan, G Thistleborough,-Stafford Whittle, Esq. II Gobrana.-Messrs. Whitlas. K Lakefield, Robert Hyndman, Esq. L Ballydonaghy, Mr. John Oakman. M Budor.--Mrs. Mc. Clure. P Heathfield,--Mr. David Mc. Clure. |