* STATISTICAL SURVEY 



bad as in the former cafe. But where the fubftra- 

 tum is open rock, gravel, or any other porous 

 body, through which the water may readily pafs, 

 the furface is always dry and wholefome, and very 

 well calculated for young Aock in fummer. Moun- 

 tains of the latter defcription are always j valuable 

 to the owners, as they get a better price for feeding 

 the flock, which are fent to them generally in May, 

 than thofe poffefled of land of the two firft de 

 criptions ; when the wet mountain lets only at five 

 or fix {hillings a /um* t the dry mountain claims ten 

 (hillings, and fometiraes more. 



Soils of the foregoing defcriptions are peculiar to 

 the baronies of Strabane and Omagh ; the baronies 

 of Dungannon and Clogher are, generally fpeaking, 

 of as good a quality of land, as perhaps any in the 

 kingdom. A large traclt of the weft parts of the 

 barony of Dungannon, and of the north part of 

 the barony of Clogher, may be ranked with the 

 mountainy parts of the baronies of Strabaqe and 

 Omagh. 



The 



* A phrafe moft commonly ufed in this county ; a 

 cow three years old is a fum ; a two year old and one 

 yearling a fum ; three yearlings a fum ; a horfe is in forae 

 parts a fum and a quarter, but is mod commonly a fum. 

 A fum, bead collop, and ball, are fyncnimous, according 

 ID different countries. 



