STATISTICAL SURVEY 



COUNTT OF DOWN. 



CHAP. I. 



GEOGRAPHICAL STATE AND CIRCUMSTANCES. 



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SECT. I. Situation and Extent. 



-L HIS county is bounded on the eaft and fouth by 

 St. George's Channel, on the weft by the county of 

 Armagh, and a fmall part of Louth, from which it 

 is feparated by the river of Newry, on the north by 

 Carrickfergus bay, the county of Antrim, and a part 

 of Lough Neagh, which it fcarcely touches. Its 

 greateft length, from Point Cranfield in the fouth, to 

 Gray Point, its moft northerly extremity, is nearly v 

 forty Irifh miles ; but from Lifburn bridge in the weft, 

 - to Dundrum in the eaft, it is not more than fixteen. 

 The fifty-fourth degree of north latitude pafles clofe 

 to Point Cranfield, and the fixth degree of weft longi- 



