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ferious enquiry by gentlemen of landed property, in 

 whom the royalties of bogs are moft commonly inverted. 

 Coal is ufed at Strabane and Dungannon occafionally. 

 I believe, by all leafes, the tenants have no right to 

 more privilege of bog, than a reafonable allowance for 

 their own confumption ; notwithftanding that they 

 may have large trafts annexed to their farms, all of 

 which the lord of the foil may difpofe of at pleafure. 

 If, inftead of fuffering tenants to engrofs large trafts 

 of bog, as they ufually do, to the great detriment of 

 the poor, landlords would fet about to quarter and 

 parcel out fuch trafts, and particularly iu the vicinities 

 of towns and villages, they would foon experience the 

 good effects, of it. In many fituations, the acre- 

 able rent would be found to exceed that of the beft 

 arable land in the fame neighbourhood. There is a 

 very ftrong inftance of this between Dungannon 

 and Verner's ferry, where there is a very exten- 

 fivc bog judicioufly laid for fale by the acre, and 

 which, I am told, lets on an average at the rate of two 

 guineas by the acre, and is by no means of a good 

 quality. Here the proprietor makes a good yearly re- 

 venue ; the poor are accommodated for many miles 

 round ; and, by the good manner of cutting out the 

 bog upon a regular face, great future benefits may de- 

 rive from meadow and pafture. 



Genera/ Co/I. The cofl of fuel depends, in a great 

 meafure, on the distance it is to be brought, as the 



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