36 1 Of the Bogs in Ireland. 



Major Taylor's excellent map of the county of Kildare fur- 

 nisbed us with every necessary information, so far as that 

 county was in question: but of the King's county there was 

 no map published; and as it contains not less than 124,000 

 English acres of bog, it became a most important object 

 to possess ourselves of the necessary information with re- 

 spect to them. 



" We therefore thought ourselves fortunate in finding 

 that Mr. Larkin, a surveyor of eminence, had surveyed 

 the county for the grand jury ; and we contracted with him 

 to furnish us with*, map of it, on the large scale required 

 by our instructions 5 and Mr. Larkin making himself re- 

 sponsible for the accuracy of the survey, we agreed to give 

 him for it 300/. being at the rate of less than three far- 

 things per acre for every acre of bog it contained. With 

 these and the assistance of other documents, we divided 

 all the bogs, containing above 500 acres, in the counties 

 of Kildare, King's county, Tipperary, Westmeath, and 

 Longford, into seven districts : of these we gave the one 

 which forms the north-eastern part of the Bog of Allen, in 

 charge to Mr. Richard Griffith ; the south-eastern to Mr. 

 Brassington ; the north-western to Mr. Townshend ; the , 

 south-western to Mr. Longrield ; a district lying princi- 

 pally in Westmeath to Mr. Jones ; and the bogs in the 

 county of Longford, and on both banks of the river Inny, 

 to Mr. Edgeworth. 



" We also gave a large district of bog in the county of 

 Tipperary, which runs nearly parallel to the suir from Ros- 

 crea to Cashell, in charge to Mr, Aher, wishing to take 

 advantage of the circumstance of his being able to give a 

 portion of his time to that district, although not to any 

 other, on account of his other engagements. 



kW We next laid down the principles which were 1o go- 

 vern our expenditure, in such manner as to secure that the 

 amount of our disbursements should depend in every in- 

 stance on the degree of labour to be performed. 



" With these views, we fixed the, pay of engineers at 

 two guineas a day for every day actually employed, and one , 

 guinea a day in lieu of allowances lor travelling and. board 

 and lodging. That of their surveyors at one guinea a day 

 for each, while employed, to be at once their pay and in 

 lieu of all allowances of every description. For the starT- 

 men, chain- men, and labourers, we intrusted the engineers 

 to make the best bargains in their power, not exceeding 

 three shillings per day in any instance ; and these terms 

 we trust will appear extremely moderate when compared 



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