OF THE COUNTY OF DOWN. 



SECT. 3. Rental. 



THE rental of the county of Down is very confide- 

 rable, not lefs I, have reafon to think from the very 

 beft information, than twenty {hillings the Irifh acre, 

 allowing for the mountains and -bogs, &c. which may 

 be computed at 44,658 acres, the furplus of the total 

 acres of the county above 300,000 ; fo that the rental 

 of the county may very fairly be given at 300,0007. ; 

 though the greateft eflate is let much lower than this, 

 yet there are others let fo much higher as fully to 

 make up the deficiency. Lands in the neighbourhood 

 of the large towns, fuch as Belfaft and Newry, fet be- 

 yond their value, merely as a matter of convenience 

 to the opulent inhabitants, not as farms. Therefore, 

 they are not to be confidered, as giving in the lead de- 

 gree a general idea of what the rental produces ; what 

 is mentioned above merely refers to the average rent 

 of the cultivable land. 



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