OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. 23 



There is a large fcope of the ftratum vifible, per* 

 haps between three or four hundred feet, before it 

 difappears. From this circumftance there is reafon 

 to fuppofe it runs horizontal, or nearly fo, through- 

 out the mountain, or perhaps throughout all the 

 mountains in this part of the country. 



Part of Lough Erne is within eight or nine miles 

 of this place, in a ftraight line. A canal carried 

 circling round the mountains, in the befl line for a 

 canal, probably might be double that diftance. 



It is faid, that the waters of Lough Erne are 

 higher than the neighbourhood of the coal mine; 

 this, however, might be proved. From the great 

 number of brooks throughout this mountainy country, 

 it is very probable, that a plentiful fupply of water 

 might at all feafons be procured ; but this point 

 fhould be well afcertained, before an undertaking of 

 this kind fhould be fet on foot. 



A perfon, (killed in Canal works, might be appointed 

 to take the levels, examine the aature of the foil, 

 afcertain the quantity of water, that might be procured 

 from the rivulets and brooks in the fummer feafon, 

 with other ufeful points neceflary to be known. The 

 expence attending all this would be found but trifling, 

 when compared to the many advantages, which might 

 follow from fuch an undertaking. 



There are evident figns, of this country abounding 

 in iron ore ; and fuch a colliery as the above, if it 



fliould 



