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Skulkill, are eight in number. They do not go 

 quite from eaft to weft, but deviate a little from 

 that direction. All the ftreets except two which 

 are neareft to the river, run in a ftraight line, 

 and make right angles at the interfedions. Some 

 are paved, others are not ; and it feems lefs ne- 

 ceflary, fince the ground is fandy, and therefore 

 foon abforbs the wet. But in moft of the ftreets 

 is a pavement of flags, a fathom or more broad, 

 laid before the houfes, and pofts put on the out- 

 fide three or four fathom afunder. Under the 

 roofs are gutters which are carefully connected 

 with pipes, and by this means, thofe who walk 

 under them, when it rains, or when the fnow 

 melts, need not fear being wet by the dropping 

 from the roofs. 



THE houfes make a good appearance, are fre- 

 quently feveral ftories high, and built either of 

 bricks or of ftone ; but the former are more corn- 

 gionly ufed, fince bricks are made before the 

 town, and are well burnt. The ftone which has 

 been employed in the building of other houfes, 

 is a mixture of black or grey glimmer, running 

 in undulated veins, and of a loofe, and quite 

 fmall grained limeftonc> which run fcattered be- 

 tween the bendings of the other veins, and arc 

 of a grey colour, excepting here and there fome 

 fingle grains of fand, of a paler hue. The glim- 

 mer makes the greateft part of the ftone 5 but the 

 mixture is fometimes of another kind, as I fhall 

 relate hereafter under the article, eleventh of Oc- 

 tober. This ftone is now got in great quanti- 

 ties in the country, is eafily cut, and has the good 

 quality of not attracting the moifturc in a wet 



feafon. 



