OF THE COUNTY OF DOWN. 29 



CHAPTER II. 



STATE OF PROPERTY. 



i 

 SECTION i. 



EJlateSy and their Management. 



NOTWITHSTANDING there are fome very large eftatej 

 in this county, property is much divided, and has all 

 the different gradations, from the moft opulent noble- 

 man, to the tenant in perpetuity, who farms his own 

 freehold. The management of eftates is very fimple ; 

 it confifts in letting the different farms, receiving the 

 rents, and in regulating the turf-bogs. This latter 

 branch of management requires a confiderable degree 

 of attention, to prevent wafle, which now is a matter 

 of ferious consideration, as fuel, that eflential to life 

 and comfort, is likely to be fcarce, and that at no very 

 remote period ; in many parts, it is already fo difficult 

 to be procured, that a whole day is confumed in going 

 for, and returning with one load. The confequence 

 of a failure in the article of turf-bog, in a country fa 



populous, 



