The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

The city of Limerick, the siege of which was begun under his majesty king William himself, the year after I went into the army -- lies, an' please your honours, in the middle of a devilish wet, swampy country.

-- 'Tis quite surrounded, said my uncle Toby, with the Shannon, and is, by its situation, one of the strongest fortified places in Ireland.