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perhaps of bad land, can make no figure as a farmer ; 

 his fituation as a labourer, with a comfortable cot- 

 take immediately under the lord of the foil, is much 

 preferable, having no difficulties to encounter, nor 

 being under any difagreeable anxiety. 



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SECT. 2. Farm-koufes and Offices. 



THERE is much more attention paid to dwelling- 

 houfes throughout the county, than to the offices be- 

 longing to them. In many parts, the dwelling-howfes 

 are built with lime and Hone ; but by far too many 

 are built with clay-mortar as a cement. In the angles 

 of the houfes, jaumbs of doors, &c. lime-mortar is 

 commonly ufed, in order to ftrengthen the walls ; but, 

 notwithftanding, the walls frequently bulge outwards, 

 wherever clay-mortar is concerned. 



In the barony of Dungannon, many houfes are built 

 of clay, or what they call mud- walls, but, in general, 

 in a flovenly manner, by no means equal to the mud- 

 wall houfes we frequently meet with iu the county of 

 Dublin. When mud-wall houfes are well built, they 

 are much warmer than houfes built of lime and ftone ; 

 they are not, however, adapted -for this county, as the 

 clay is not well calculated for the purpofe of build- 

 ing ; but the principal caufe is, that they confume too 



much 



