$2 NEWGROVE. 



Imported a man from Norfolk, whom he gave 

 forty guineas a year with board, who brought 

 ploughs, hoes, &c. with him ; gave him a gui- 

 nea for every boy he taught to plough, and 

 every boy who could fairly plough, had a (hil- 

 ling a day wages. By this means he has col- 

 lected a fet of excellent ploughmen, who have 

 been of infinite ufe, fo that he has to this day 

 ploughed with Norfolk and Suffolk ploughs, 

 worked with a pair of horfes, and no driver 

 except the firft and fecond ploughing of frefh 

 land, which, and dragging, he does with great 

 drags of 1 8 cwt. and drawn by bullocks. This 

 improvement is of particular confequence, as 

 there are here twelve miles fquare of rich land, 

 taken almoft in a fquare between Mallow and 

 Corke, one way, and the Bagra mountains 

 and Nagles the other ; upon all which 

 there is not a ftone to interrupt the plough, 

 ibmetimes not a ftone to an acre. 



He is convinced, from experience, that the 

 woi ft of this vaft tract may be drained, inclofed, 

 limed with fifty barrels, and tilled with a crop 

 of oats on it, for 5!. an acre. In the neigh- 

 bourhood, a great improvement of 1200 acres, 

 without lime or gravel, and badly done yet, at 

 j 2S. an acre, fix-7ths of the county of Corke at 

 as. an acre, one- /th, los. of Kerry, nine-ioths 3 

 at is. andone-ioth at los. 



Six years ago, Mr. Gordon eftablifhed a 

 linen manufactory, and bleach mill, upon the 



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