<94 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



There is a great deal in habit in any undertaking ; 

 fo with levelling ; a good eye never fails to facilitate 

 this kind of" btifmefs. 



In 1801, I found a great number of Lord Mount- 

 joy's tenants bufily employed in watering their mea- 

 dows and pafture-grounds. As it was the firfr. year, 

 of courfc it was managed in a flovenly and imperfect 

 manner. I flngled out a perfon, who was in the habit 

 of watering for fome little time before in the demefne. 

 This man has an exceeding good eye, and has alfo a 

 great liking to irrigation, which is every thing. I fent 

 him, with his fi tuple triangular level, through the ef- 

 tate ; and, in the courfe of a few weeks, he made a 

 wonderful reformation in the ideas of the people, fo 

 that now the greater part of them are practitioners, 

 and irrigation is become quite a fcience among them. 



I only mention this circumftance as a hint to im- 

 provers, as every neighbourhood in the kingdom muft 

 have fome perfons, whofe abilities are fuperior to 

 thofe of others, and therefore it ftiould be the object 

 of the proprietors to felect them. 



The advancing of money to poor tenants, at the time 

 of taking out a leafe, would, no doubt, in many in- 

 ftances, produce a good effect, in forwarding the means 

 of improvements, or rather placing the money on fuch 

 a footing, as to be occafionally laid out on improve- 

 ments, according to contract. 



Tenants 



