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can be obtained, material means must be used 

 to procure this as other material ends, and the 

 man who has made practice his study must 

 perceive that the means necessary at present 

 are those of no ordinary decription. It is the 

 amount and character of the means which has 

 hitherto been experienced as the great difficulty 

 to obtain ; these obtained, the performance of 

 the work will not be found so formidable and 

 opposing an obstacle. 



On our arrival in Ulster, the first thing 

 which arrested our attention was the neglected 

 state of industry among the labouring popula- 

 tion, especially those connected with agriculture. 

 Had we not previously seen the same state of 

 things in the Highlands of Scotland, we would 

 have had some difficulty in giving credit to the 

 testimony of those who informed us that matters 

 were still worse in the south and western pro- 

 vinces of Ireland, to which we were afterwards 

 eye-witness. Both the method of working and 

 the character of the implements in use were 

 some centuries out of date. In order to show 

 the want of information which exists on this 

 subject, we quote from " British Husbandry" 

 the following extract by the author of that 



