OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. 27 



Between Newtown-ftewart, and Strabane, and fo on to 

 Lifford, it goes by the ancient name, the Mourne ; and 

 from thence forward to Londonderry, by the general 

 name of the river Foyle. 



In its progrefs through the county it receives fome 

 confiderable rivers, and brooks, or, as they are here 

 called, burnes, innumerable, as every mountain produ- 

 ces its part of a brook, and almoft all the brooks in 

 the county ultimately join the river Mourne. 



At Omagh, or a little to the eaft of it, two confider- 

 able rivers meet, namely, Drumragh, and a mountain/ 

 river; in the neighbourhood of this junction, I fuppofe 

 the name Gammon is afTumed, the word being derived 

 from crookednefs, or fudden bends, which here occur 

 frequently. Below Omagh, about two miles, the Poa, 

 or the Fairy water joins. Near Newtown-ftewart, two 

 confiderable rivers fall in, namely, the Gortin, and 

 Glinnelly rivers, the junction of which is at Corick 

 woods, about three miles eaft of Newtown-ftewart. At 

 Ardftra, the river Derg joins ; and below Strabane 

 near Lifford, comes in the river Fin, which divides 

 this county from that of Donegal, as far as the village 

 of Clady. 



The lakes of this county are poor and infignificant, 

 if we except Loughneagh, which only mears a fmall 

 portion of it ; the lakes at Baron's-court feem to be 

 the largeft, and are by far the moft interefting in 

 the county, as being, or compofing part of the 



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