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ly one atGlanmire, near Dunkettle, from which 

 the inland inhabitants draw the manure four 

 or five miles in one-horfe carts. Lime is alfo 

 much ufed at a fhilling a barrel. The mea- 

 dows in this country yield from H to 3 tons of 

 hay per acre, at 403. to 455. per ton on an 

 average. Dairies are let to dairymen at 4 to 5 

 guineas a cow. Many fheep are kept on the 

 hills, but none folded. The diet of the poor is 

 potatoes and milk, with fome fiih in the her- 

 ring and fprat feafon. Labourers houfes from 

 258. to 405. a year. Fuel a very little coal, the 

 reft fupplied by bufhes, ftolen faggots, &c. as 

 there is no turf in this part of the country. 

 Price of labour 6d. per day through the year, 

 on a pinch in harveft 8d. fometimes more, but 

 within the liberties of the city generally 8d. 

 Women jd. and 4d. a day in reeking corn : 

 children from id. to 3d. in picking ftones, &c. 

 Moft employed in country bufmefs ; a few at 

 fome bolting iron and paper-mills in the neigh- 

 bourhood. From fourteen acres of orchard 

 Mr. Trent makes fixty hogfheads a year of cy- 

 der ; a clear acre of good trees about feven 

 hogfheads. His hogs he feeds on the bull po- 

 tatoes, whjch yield great crops without dung, 

 and for two or three years fucceffively. 



September i6th, to Cove by water, from Mr. 

 Trent's quay. The view of Lota is charming ; 

 a fine rifing lawn from the water, with noble 

 fpreading woods reaching on each fide ; the 

 houfe a very pleafing front, with lawn Ihoot- 

 ing into the woods. The river forms a creek 



between 



