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enriched with lime and dung before 

 with grafs, fo that, when broke up for corns, 

 it produces but fmall crops ; the money that 

 ought to be given to the farmer to improve 

 his farm, and purchafe manure, is fent away 

 to other countries to buy corns. 



So long as they continue to encourage im- 

 portation, they will nerer have corns fo cheap 

 as other parts of the country. 



In the latter end of 1786, and the begin- 

 ning of 1787, there were above an hundred 

 thoufand pounds fent to Ireland for corns and 

 meal imported to the weft of Scotland. This 

 fum would circulate amongft the manufac- 

 turers in Ireland ; and if they continued to 

 import from thence, would enable the Irilh 

 manufacturers to underfell the Scots in the 

 article of linen cloth, which they are doing 

 in fome meafure already. Scotland, before 

 the Revolution, ferved Ireland with great 

 quantities of linen; but fince that period, 

 while the linen trade was neglected, Ireland 

 has introduced the manufacture of linen, and 

 brought it to fo great a length, by encou- 

 ragement from the public, that they not on- 

 ly ferve themfelves, but export linens to 

 England to four times the value that Scotland 



does ;' 



