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wool, and one of flax-, in the ufual way, the wool and 

 flax arc equal. 



I hope our northern farming focieties, when more 

 generally eftablifhcd, will attend to this hint. 



SECT. 5. Population. 



DOCTOR Beaufort's Memoir, of his map of Ireland, 

 makes the number of houfes to be 28,704. From a 

 great number of views, that I have taken in differ- 

 ent parifhes, I find the average of perfons to each 

 houfe rather exceeds fix, which number, by allowing 

 fomcthing for emigration, I (hall abide by, fo th^t the 

 whole of the inhabitants may be fet down at 172,224; 

 a great population indeed, which, I believe, is very 

 near the truth. * 



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