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nor is there, I may venture to fay, any county where 

 the gentlemen are more alive to every thing, in which 

 its welfare is concerned j the good effects of this are 

 perceivable, in their attention to improvements of all 

 kinds, within their more immediate fphere ; in plant- 

 ing, in attending to the ftate of agriculture, and in pro- 

 moting its interefts ; and in general in their care of the 

 roads and bridges, in the adminift ration of juftice, and 

 in providing as far as it is in their power for the good 

 order, comfort, and happinefs of the people. The 

 clergy, with fome exceptions, are alfo refident, and by 



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their example, and moderation in their demands, con- 

 tribute their (hare to .Ithe fpiritual as well as temporal 

 advantage of their refpective neighbourhoods. The 

 churches are in general neat and well built, though 

 not very large j and almoft all the parishes in the dio- 

 cefs of Dromore have glebes and glebe-houfes ; thole 

 in the diocefs of Down are not fo well provided with 

 glebes, the number being comparatively fmall ; thofe 

 that are built are commodious dwellings. One reafon 

 . of this difference is, the number of lay impropriators 

 in this latter diocefs. 



SECT. 5. State of Education. 



' A VERY particular report was made from this county, 

 on the ftate of education, fome time ago. I muft refer 



the 



