Surveys of Ireland, origin ally instituted by the Royal Dublin Society, under the immediate patronage of the Irish parliament. That no greater progress, at the end of so many years, should have been made towards the completion of this important national undertaking, and that eight counties should still remain unde scribed, is, perhaps, principally attributable to the inadequacy of the remuneration held out by the Society, in itself alone, od'ering little tempts tion to enter upon the laborious exertions, aswell in the field as in the study, which are absolutely necessary to bring a county survey to a satis factory conclusion. Neither has any distinction been made between the large or the small, the near or the remote counties. The Society, at the.