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rable proportion of the money now expended on the 

 roads of this kingdom might be faved. 



SECT. 2. Canals. 



ON this fubjeft nothing offers fmce writing the fee- 

 tion on the rivers of the county. 



SECT. 3. Fairs. 



FAIRS are eftablifhed in every town in this county ; 

 the general objecl: of thefe fairs is the fale of cattle, 

 horfes, and fheep, and fome hogs. In ftveral towns 

 linen is fold ofi fair days, and a confiderable quantity 

 of yarn ; the yarn market is the firft, at an early hour, 

 afterwards the linen market ; as many of the buyers of 

 yarn are alfo fellers of linen. The principal fairs for 

 horfes are held at Banbridge, to which buyers refort 

 from confiderable diftances. Dealers from Dublin and 

 from Scptland attend at moft of our fairs, as well as 

 at Banbridge ; Dromore, Saintfield, Ballynahinch, are 

 all fairs very much frequented by dealers in cattle as 

 well as horfes ; Cafllewellan and Rathfryland, befides 

 thefe, have the mountain iheep, which alfo may be had 

 at Rofstrevor, Dundrum, and Clogh. 



SECT. 



