30 NEWGROVE. 



Gordon's, the whole place, fome years ago, 

 being a wafte moor, or mountain, as it is called 

 in Ireland. 



Mr. Gordon took it for improvement ; the 

 foil and bog five to nine fpits deep, and under 

 it a black earth, or a reddifh fand, and in fome 

 a whitifh clayey fubftance, but not marie ; 

 many fprings in it, which were carried off by 

 drains ; and then the whole furface of turf cut 

 out, and carried to Cork: cutting, &c. 303. a 

 100, and fold there at 5!. this was done in 

 order to get lime, which is not upon the land, 

 and by this means the line came to feven-pence 

 halfpenny a barrel ; found many ftones and 

 great roots, and timbers, which were all clear- 

 ed away, and the land ploughed with oxen, 

 before winter ; then left the winter three 

 ploughings given in the fpring, and fifty bar- 

 rels of lime, fpread and fown with oats and 

 clover; the crop very great; could be fold 

 however, for 4!. an acre ; the clover fine. This 

 was cut for hay, and the fecond weighed 23 lib. 

 per Englifh perch fquare, and a horfe that was 

 flarved nine hours, eat in twenty-four hours 

 I07lb. And after thefe two cuttings, there 

 was a third for foiling with in Oftober ; it was 

 then fowed with a fecond crop of oats, and that 

 with clover which was left, and has been 

 mown every year for eleven years fmce ; this 

 was one field in particular, but all in the fame 

 manner, and would let for one pound an acre 

 readily ; all expences of the 3 crops, including 

 the lime, coft. 61. 73. 90. an acre, fo that the 



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