STATISTICAL SURVEY 



lands the quarry or quarries are. It (hould be * ge* 

 neral caufe; they fhould go further, by cheerfully and 

 unanimoufly contributing to put quarries in jjood 

 working order; firft, by giving a power of keeping 

 them dry, when neceflary; fecondly, by finking fo as 

 to be able to work upon a fair face to advantage, and, 

 of courfe, by being able to get at the beft part of the 

 itone, -which is generally the loweft in all quarries; 

 and thirdly, by employing intelligent perfons, to fee 

 that all be fairly carried into execution. Such a per- 

 fon might have the general charge of roads for a cer- 

 tain diflrift, and for dividing and regulating bogs 

 amang tenantry. I fpeak from confiderable experience 

 of the utility of luch a perfon, and efpecially where 

 there is a large landed property, and a numerous 

 tenantry. 



Without an enumeration of fome of the principal 

 quarries, I could not, with any degree of accuracy, 

 point out the feveral roads, that {hould be introduce d, 

 merely an account of the carriage of limeftone. 



The county is rich in limeftone quarries, generally 

 of an excellent quality for land. Here I fliall men- 

 tion fome, to which roads would be found of the 

 greateft advantage. 



In the barony of Strabane, between Gortin and 

 Dunnamanagh, is a famous quarry called the Butter- 

 loop, fituated between a clufter of the Munterloney 

 mountains, and fome of the firft magnitude in the 



county. 



