70 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



A farmer, who may occupy ten or fifteen acres, of 

 perhaps bad land, is neither a farmer nor a cottier; 

 he is much worfe flouted than a cottager, placed in 

 a comfortable, caly fituation, immediately under the 

 lord of the foil, with certain privileges, fufficient to 

 fupport himfelf, and family, fo far as relates to po- 

 tatoes, flax, grazing, and a fmall garden, with a little 

 hay, or, for want of it, a certain allowance of ftraw ; 

 for thefe the labourer can afford to pay a better rent, 

 than the petty farmer is able to pay for his land. By 

 this fyftem, the landed property will be encreafed, the 

 individual cottier made happy and comfortable-, this 

 uill excite induftry, will create wealth j and thus the 

 community at large can never fail of benefiting by this 

 mode. 



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SECT. 6. Natural grafts. 



I believe all the natural grafles peculiar to the king- 

 dom are to be met with in this county; it is at leaft 

 the cafe, as far as I could learn. Upon this fubjeft, 

 with the inveftigation of other plants indigenous to the 

 county, I have, for fome years back, fpcnt fomc time 

 and fpeculation; the refult of which I hope, one day 

 or other, to fet forth, though I cannot fay, that I ftiall 

 be able to add a fingle fpecies to the collection at 

 GlufTnevin, according to the catalogue I have feen of 

 that collection. ^-2 



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