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| | Cabra, Drumcondra, Glasnevin, North Strand. |
 | | While deliberate design may often be traced in the central plan of a city, the suburban districts are usually allowed to grow up haphazard, each sprawling ungracefully over the countryside, and linked with its neighbours by narrow and winding lanes, which have lost their rustic beauty, but 8till retain their primitive inconvenience. |
 | | With the characteristic paganism of an artist, the sculptor has supported the central figure, on one side with orthodox religion drooping under her sorrow, on the other with the upright, half-defiant figure of the heathen goddess Minerva, so placed that she seems to stare fixedly at the preacher. |
 | | On leaving the Drumcondra district, the North Circular Road comes in view of S. George's Church, which has, perhaps, the most graceful and conspicuous spire in Dublin. |
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