OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. ^ 



It is the inconftancy of the feafons we have moft 

 to guard againft ; either extremes are never known 

 to be intolerable. 



The times of common occurrences in hufbandry 

 are, in a great meafure, determined by the climate. 

 Oats are fown from the middle of March to the 

 firfl of May; barley during the whde month of 

 May ; flax-feed about the fame time. The hay har- 

 veft, kt the weather be never fo favourable, is gene- 

 rally kept too late, .-j nr : 



SECT. 4. Soil and Surface. 



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IT would be found an endlefs tafk to enumerate 

 the great variety of foils and furfaces within the 

 county ; the following (ketch may, however, be de- 

 pended upon. 



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The mountainy parts are generally fhallow, wet, 

 and four ; in other parts dry, hufky, and peaty, 

 the depth feldom exceeding fix inches. In fome pla- 

 ces the fubftratum is tenacious, and hence we find 

 the tops and fides of mountains generally wet and 

 fpongy. In other parts, the fnbftratum is a black, 

 folid bog, which is equally as tenacious as ftrong 

 clay foil, and of courfe prevents the water frtim 

 finking, by which means the farface is equally as 



bad. 



