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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0874, Page 142

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    they would live entirely by the sea, they talk of nothing else but the sea, their dreams is of the sea from the cradle to the grave. From the working of a small, to the maning of a big ship, marks the whole outline of their life's career. They are in truth worthy successors of that handy race of Northern Sea Rovers that laid the foundation of their little town by the Suir.
    We have said that the inhabitants of Passage live exclusively by the sea and to this fact may be attributed its great prosperity in the past. Like the port of Waterford of which it is an adjacent, the advent of Steam-Power has brought its prosperity to a stand-still, if indeed a retrograde has not already set in. When the sailing ships were in vogue a
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    Passage East, Co. Waterford