88 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



As far as I can learn, the county is fufficient to fup- 

 ply itfelf with foap and candles. 



Wool. Sixteen {hillings a ftone may be cotifidered 

 the average price for wool, for the laft ten years; 

 i61b. being ufually allowed to the Hone. By retail 

 wool generally fells at from i4d. to i8d. per pound. 



The county is by 'no means eminent for fhtep, and 

 fuch as they are, in no great quantity. Small fcnt^erdd 

 flocks are to be met with, in the mourttainy parts, in 

 fummer, which in winter, are difperfed through the 

 low-lands, without any diftinction, fo as not to be con- 

 fined to any particular diftrift; for at that feafon, a 

 kind of run-deal? through many parts of the county, 

 (and particularly the baronies of Strabane and Omagh) 

 takes place, for want of good fences. If the owners 

 know the number of their fheepj and have fome 

 private mark on them, by which they may be able to 

 diftlnguifh them from their neighbours', they giv 

 themfelves no further trouble about them. In heavy 

 fnows however, every pcrfon endeavours to collect his 

 little flock to his habitation, but in this they are often 

 difappointed. 



From the precarious manner, in which fheep are 

 bred in this county, and as the owners of them gene- 

 rally 



* Run-dealt or run-deal, is a term ufed, when feveral par- 

 ties are joined in a town-land, or part of it, without any per- 

 manent meaning. Cattle in fuch filiations graze in common, 

 but the crops are divided only by a narrow margin, of about 

 a foot broad, left uoploughed* 



