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them. The grain produced in this diftrift is excellent, 

 and I am informed, upon good authority, that, -in the 

 parifti of Bangor, oats may be fown, without change 

 of feed, or fear of degenerating, for any length of 

 time. Other portions of clay there are fcattered in 

 different parts, but not of fufficient confequence to be 

 particularly mentioned. Of fand the quantity is very 

 fmall, confifting of a few (tripes, fcattered along the 

 -different fhores, of which the moft confiderable is 

 that on the bay of Dundrum. Part of this is culti- 

 vated, part under rabbits and grazing ground, and 

 part of it confifls of fand-banks, which lie upon the 

 bay, and, continually fhifdng, preclude all attempts 

 towards improvement. There is, likewife, a finall 

 tract of fand lying to the fouth of the Lagan, which 

 continues, with fome interruption, from the neighbour- 

 hood of Moira towards Lifburn, and thence to that 

 part of the parifti of Lambeg, which is in the county 

 of Down , this, however, having a covering of loani 

 for fome depth, is excellent, and, when well farmed^ 

 .is very productive, with this advantage, that it is 

 managed at lefs expence of labour than any of the 

 foils above-mentioned, is earlier fovvn, and the grain 

 earlier rifes, and, confequently, fooner out of danger. 

 The crops of wheat, when properly prepared for, 

 which is generally by a potatoe fallow, are equal in 

 quantity, and little inferior in quality, to that of the 

 beft loam or clay. Gravelly foils, foils intermixed 

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