OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. 151 



price of horfe-labour is always high, feldom lefs than 

 half a crown a day. 



Sixty kifb.es is generally the allowance for a cottier, 

 the kifh being equal to a cubical yard, but it is general- 

 ly heaped as high as it can be conveniently carried, and 

 efpecially when the turf is of a light fpongy quality. 

 The ufual price for cutting, and making up ready for 



burning, is 14.;. by the hundred.* 



'. d. 

 Forty kifhes, being confidered equal to a 



hundred, - j i o 



Drawing, at ten turns a day, - o 15 o 



The above is pretty near the average of the country 

 parts of the county ; but, in fome towns and villages, 

 the cafe is very different ; the kifh is feldom lefs than 

 is. id., and often, in winter time, fo high as 2s. 8cl, 

 Regular modes, of parcelling and dividing bogs, can 

 alone eafe the inhabitants of towns of this grievance, 

 at leaft to a certain degree, as numbers of the towns- 

 people would find it their interefl to cut their own 

 turf, and, confequently, the poorer clafs belonging to 



towns, 



* A hundred of turf is equal to forty wheel-car-loads, or 

 1 20 flide-car-loads. Twenty clamps, eight feet long, four 

 feet wide, and fix feet high, tapering to the top like the roof 

 of a houfe, are equal to a hundred, and in which flate they 

 are generally fold ; the meafurement to be fettled in four day? 

 after the clamps are made. 



