u8 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



CHAPTER V. 



POLITICAL ECONOMY. 



SECT. I. Roads and Bridges. 



ROADS and bridges are generally well attended to 

 by the gentlemen of the county, many of whom are 

 excellent judges of fuch public works, and take great 

 pains to have them well executed. Very few counties 

 in the kingdom can boaft of better or more convenient 

 roads ; fome parts of the poft road, however, between 

 Monaghan and Strabane are an exception ; but thofe 

 parts are intended to be improved. I have accompa- 

 nied Captain Taylor, fome time ago, on the port-road 

 between Omagh and Newtown-ftewart, and then ap- 

 proved very much of the new line he adopted , but fmce 

 having weighed this matter well, I am flrongly of opi- 

 nion, that the propofed line fliould be on the eafl fide 



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