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to the fupply of the county, I felefted fix in different 

 parts of the county. I found thefutton,* annexed to 

 the fix mills taken together, amounted to about 28,000 

 acres, between arable, pafture, &c. The county con- 

 tains 467,700 acres ; fo that about one hundred mills, 

 kept fully employed, may be deemed fufficient for the 

 county. 



There are mills of other defcriptions, fuch as beetling- 

 mills, one of which muft be at every eminent bleach- 

 green ; tuck-mills, for thickening woollen cloth, and 

 fometimes drugget, which are plentifully eflablifhed 

 throughout the county ; flax-mills, for icutching flax ; 

 but thefe are not fo numerous as the quantity of flax, 

 raifed in the county, feems to require, nor are they 

 conftrufted, in general, to the advantage they are ca- 

 pable of, fmce it is well known, that, by means of 

 fluted cylinders, flax or lint might be broken at the 

 fame time. This would fave a great deal of fevere la- 

 bour, which, according to the prefent mode of break- 

 ing flax, or preparing it for the fcutchers, is unavoid- 

 able. 



To the above may be added a plating-mill, for mak- 

 ing fpades and (hovels, at Fintona, and one about to 



be 



* Sutton is a certain diftrid claimed by mills, in virtue of 

 leafes or agreements between the lord of the manor and the 



miller; fometimes a whole manor, at other times a half 

 manor, &c. 



