OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. 1*3 



likely to be~the undertakers, would find it their intereft to 

 lake care, that their public works fhould not interfere 

 with their private bufinefs, at lead, fo as not to check 

 the fpring and autumn works. In this cafe they would 

 jjrepare materials occafionally, and have them in rea- 

 dinefs to lay on at every favourable opportunity.* By 

 fuch judicious management much advantage would 

 accrue to the public, and we would feldom find bad 

 fpots in roads, which in the prefent cafe too frequent- 

 ly occur. Road-overfeers, (I mean the under ones) 

 according to the prefent mode, never find it their own 

 private intereft to attack a breach in a road, or fet 

 right a pipe or a gullet, which may have got out of or- 

 der, or let off water from ditches or water-tables, or to 

 do. any other trifling matter that may occur, and which 

 if early attacked, the coft is nothing in comparifon to 

 the letting fuch jobs lie over from affize to aflize. 



The farming of roads &c. would remedy all thofe in- 

 conveniencies, becaufe, the moment the undertaker found 

 any thing amifs, it would be his intereft to fet it right 



immediately, 



* Soldiers ftationed in different quarters might be ap- 

 plied to great advantage, to make and repair roads in time of 

 peace ; the good effects of which have been long ago expe- 

 rienced in the highlands of Scotland. The farmer by this 

 means might be eafed of the weight of county cefs ; the fol- 

 diers would have more pay than ufual, and, what would be 

 found better, his time would be better employed than in 

 the dram mop; the military road, in the county of Wicklow, 

 may ferve as a rule to go by. 



