made ground, that a year or two pafl would not have 

 produced one /hilling per acre, now worth four guineas ; 

 but the greater portion of thefe mountains is compofed 

 of rocky fteeps and precipices, fo as to preclude any 

 poffibility of improving them, but by planting, which 

 has been performed on one part to the extent, I have 

 heard, of three hundred acres by the late Lord Clan- 

 braffil, who for many years planted from thirty to 

 fixty thoufand trees annually, with which he com- 

 pletely covered one of the lower mountains, clofe to 

 which his mofl uncommon improvement is fituated, in 

 which every variety of wood, water, mountain, com- 

 bine with frequent views of the fea, to form a fuccef- 

 fion of the moll romantic fcenery. In another part, 

 Mr. Needham inclofed and planted a confiderable tract 

 on the Mourne fide, where he refided feveral fum- 

 mersj of Jate I have heard nothing has been added 

 to this improvement, which, from the growth of 

 the trees, and the beauty of the ftreams which flow 

 through it, promifed to be little inferior to Tullamore 

 park. 



Where planting has been attempted on thefe moun- 

 tains, every tree almoft has given way to the larch, 

 which feems here to flourish as in its native foil. 





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