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hiring in partnership in rundale ; and they 

 have changedale alfo. Moft of them have only 

 a cabbin and a cabbage garden, and the fize is 

 nfually enough for 100 plants j and their rent 

 for it 2os : in this cafe they pay their neigh- 

 bour for the grafs of their cow but I was 

 ibrry to find that fome of them have no cows. 

 They live the year through upon potatoes, and 

 for half the year have nothing but water with 

 them. They have all a pig, and fome of them 

 feveral, but kill one for themfelves at Chrift- 

 tnas. Their circumflances are very generally 

 better than twenty years ago, efpecially in 

 cloathing, but in food no great difference. 

 Spinning is the general bufmefs of the women : 

 they fpin infinitely more wool than flax. AH 

 the poor keep a collop of fheep ; as foon as the 

 lamb is fit to kill, they fell it, except enough 

 to keep up the ftock, in order to have the milk. 

 In the little towns of Donneraile, Mitchelftown, 

 Mallow, Kilworth, Kanturk, and Newmarket, 

 are clothiers, who buy up the wool, employ 

 combers in their houfes, who make confidera- 

 ble wages, and when combed, they have a day 

 fixed for the poor to come and take it, in order 

 to fpin it into worded, and pay them by the 

 ball, by which they earn one penny three 

 farthings to two-pence a day. The clothier 

 exports this worfled from Cork to Briftol and 

 Norwich. Of late they have worked a good 

 deal of it into ferges, which are fent to Dublin 

 by land-carriage, and from thence to the North, 

 from whence it is fmuggled into England by 

 way of Scotland. The poor people's wool is 



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