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putting the benefits to 4 be obtained from them within 

 the reach of ten perfons for one, that is now enabled 

 to enjoy them. We may add to them an alum 

 fpring, in the townland of Clarn, to the weft of 

 Clough, on Mr. Forde's eftate ; the ftrength of it has 

 not yet been afcertained by any trial. 



SECT. 8. Waters. 



BESIDES the four principal rivers of this county, the 

 Bann, the Lagan, Newry, and Ballynahiuch rivers, 

 few countries abound more in fprings or running 

 ftreams ; for, exclufive of fuch brooks as have their 

 fources on the fides of hills, there are many others, 

 that ilTue from lakes, which are not only ferviceable 

 for domeftic ufes, and for all the purpofes of huf- 

 bandry, but are likewife eafily 'adapted to machinery, 

 and are, in general, from their nature, particularly fa- 

 vourable to the art of bleaching, in all its branches. 

 The rapid fall in the rivers of this country makes them 

 much left advantageous, when viewed in the light of 

 waters fitted for navigation, than as powers capable of 

 fetting at work the machinery required in a manufac- 

 turing country; in this line the Bann ranks foremofl, 

 whether we confider the length of its courfe, the 

 quantity of its water, or the number of bleach-greens 

 eftablifhed on its banks. The eaftern and weftern 



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