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With regard to quantity, oats and barley, the chief produds of 

 this part of the kingdom, were not defedive, except in a very 

 fmall comparative proportion, and the fhell contained a full and 

 foHd kernel. The potatoes, indeed, were deficient in quantity ; 

 but the quality of them was generally good. Upon the whole, 

 as to agricultural produce, it may be obferved, that had not the 

 failure of the preceding year occafioned a current fcarcity and a 

 confumption of ftores, the year 1800, in this diftrid, would have 

 rated in its fupply equal to common favourable years. 



About 150 years ago. Dr. Gerard Boate obferved, that the 

 weather of fpring in Ireland is generally fair^ with clear fun-fhine 

 from morning to night, for the fpace of five or fix weeks; with- 

 ■ little or no interruption, and that this fet of fair weather begins 

 fome time in the month of March. On the other hand,' he re- 

 marks, that our fummers are generally wet ; fo much fo that it is 

 a rare thing to fee a whole week pafs without rain ; and many 

 fummers the weather is never dry two or three days together. 

 With refped to the influence of this wetnefs of fumiher on the 

 produds of the foil, he further remarks, that not only the cora 

 and grafs, but the fruits of trees, fufter both in ripening and fav- 

 ing. — Yet, he maintains, that the vigilant and careful, who feize 

 every opportunity, ' do commonly in the end get in their increafe 

 well enough, notwithftanding all thefe great hinderances ; fo that 

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