3 8 DUNKETTLE, 



167!. i8s. let afterwards at 682!. 8s. Profit 

 508!. i os. without reckoning any thing for 

 two dwelling-hpufes, a forge, twelve cottages, 

 and a lime-kiln, which may moderately be reck- 

 oned at 25!. a year, and yet let at rents of fa- 

 vour, in all 533!. ios. which from 7630!. 137 

 per cent. There, however, is no agriculture 

 improvement that would not, with much greater 

 certainty of continuance, pay 17. At the fame 

 time, however, there is a greater reverfionary 

 advantage in the benefit refulting from the in- 

 creafing of the rents at the expiration of the 

 leafes, upon undertaking thele works, the 

 longeft of which is for no more than three lives. 

 Another advanrage which is felt already, is, 

 the rife in the prices of produces at Blarney, 

 which is a direct premium to agriculture, to 

 the farmer, and to the landlord. Dairy cows, 

 on all the adjacent farms, arofe in two years 

 from 3l.to 4l.a cow,as the weavers were happy to 

 get milk and butter at the tame price they fold 

 for in Corke. The fame rife took place on corn, 

 potatoes, &c. Mr. JefFerys, befides the above 

 eflablifhments, has very much improved Blar- 

 ney Caflle and its environs ; he has formed an 

 extenfive ornamented ground, which is laid out 

 with confiderable taftej an extenfive plantati- 

 on furrounds a large piece of water, and walks 

 lead through the whole ; there are feveral very 

 pretty fequeftered fpots where covered benches 

 are placed. 



Accompanied Mr. Jefferys, &c. to Dun- 

 kettie, the feat of Dominick Trent, Efq; who 

 with a liberality of fentiment which renders 



him 



