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a prosperous, skilful farmer, whose example was of 

 the utmost benefit in a district where these qualities 

 are so deficient, but who felt himself compelled to 

 remove his capital from the danger in which it stood 

 of being absorbed in the general poverty of the 

 country; and third, the short-sighted policy of the 

 landlord, (too common, I lament to say, and mainly 

 to be attributed to a want of that knowledge of the 

 proper business of a landlord, to which I have already 

 had occasion to refer,) in refusing to share the dif- 

 ficulties of the times with his tenant, because he was 

 a solvent man, — and the natural consequence of this in 

 disgusting the tenant, who then abandoned the farm, 

 for which its owner cannot now get a solvent tenant at 

 the greatly reduced rent he is at length willing to accept 

 for it. 



In the neighbourhood of Tulla there are some good 

 farms to be let, sound sheep-land, on the estate of Mr 

 Molony of Kiltanon. I passed several of the roads 

 to-day on which improvements had been begun, but 

 never completed, at the time of the famine. Several of 

 these had been left in a state which rendered them 

 actually dangerous to the traveller, and others were 

 quite useless to anybody. 



From Tulla to Scariff and Lough Derg, the land is 

 of various quality. Behind Scariff it rises to a consi- 

 derable elevation, innumerable little patches of cultiva- 

 tion stretching up the mountain side, and encouraging 

 the growth of a population which nothing but potato 

 culture could keep in existence from the produce of 

 such a soil as that on which they were located. The 



