OF THE COUNTY OF DOWN. 171 



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Bogs. 



The bogs of this county can be no objefts of agri- 

 cultural improvement, as bogs ; in many places there is 

 not a fufficient quantity for the fupply of the inhabit- 

 ants, who, from their attachment to turf as fuel, bring 

 it from the diftance of eight or ten miles. In other 

 places, where it is in greater plenty, it will be attacked 

 with increafmg rapidity, as the little detached pieces in 

 their neighbourhood are worn out; and the prices, at 

 which bog fets in many fituations, are fuch, as no other 

 land, let its fertility or flate of cultivation be what it 

 may, could produce. 



Where bogs are cut to the fand or clay, the ufual 

 method of improving them is by fetting potatoes, to 

 which this kind of ground feems particularly propi- 

 tious, efpecially if fome of the boggy parts remain to 

 mix with the under-ftratum, which thus becomes a fine 

 loam, fandy or clayey according to the nature of the 

 bottom. Thefe grounds, from their low fituation, are 

 particularly favourable for the production of grafs, 

 and, from the fame circumftance, often admit of irri- 

 gation, to which this compound foil feems remarkably 

 well adapted ; befides, there is generally fome rill near 

 at hand, which, with care, may be conduced over 



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