OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. 69 



Bat many there are, who are far from being fo com- 

 fortably circumftanced as the foregoing. Without any 

 kind of a cot-take, but the bare walls of a cabin, fre- 

 quently without even a fmall garden, the poor man 

 mutt ftruggle through life; but almoft every labourer 

 is alfo a weaver; when the linen trade is good and pro- 

 vifions cheap, he does tolerably well, fo far as potatoes 

 and oatmeal are concerned, but is generally ftraitened 

 for milk and butter; the latter, indeed, the poor 

 feldom ufe. 



As to the manner of houfing in winder, cottiers' cows 

 generally fare better, with refpeft to warmth, than 

 thofe belonging to farmers, as one houfe generally an- 

 fwers for the family and the cow. Miferable as this 

 circumftance is to relate, it is really fact, and will hold 

 good throughout more than the one third of the pea- 

 fantry of the county. 



Till men of property fet fome plans on foot to al- 

 leviate the condition of the poor, there can be no 

 chance of improving their fituations; fky farmers, or 

 under tenants, who are generally underftood to be 

 farmers of the lowefl denomination, and are moft com* 

 monly thofe, from whom moft of the labourers, and 

 the pooreft clafs of the weavers hold their cot-takes ; 

 what can be expected from a fet of beings, who are 

 for the greater part fully as wretched as the cottiers 

 themfelves? I find myfelf wandering from my fubjecTr, 

 but I requeft the reader's indulgence for a few words 



more. 



A fanner 



