LIMERICK. 7 



in a new aflembly-houfe, built for the pur- 

 pofe; and plays and conceits common. 



Upon the whole, Limerick muft be a very 

 gay place, but when the ufual number of 

 troops are in town, much more fo. To fhew 

 the general expenfes of living, I was told of a 

 perfon's keeping a carriage, four horfes, three 

 men, three maids, a good table, a wife, three 

 children, and a nurfe, and all for 500!. a 

 year. 



1. s. d. 1. s. d. 



A footman, 440 to 660 



A profefled woman cook 660 



A houfe-maiu 300 



A kitchen maid 2 o 



A butler 10 o o to 12 o o 



A .barrel of beef or pork, 200 Ib. weight. 

 Veflels of 400 tons can come up with fpring 

 tides, which rife 14 feet. 



September Qth, to Cattle Oliver; various 

 country, not fo rich to appearance as the cor- 

 cafles, being fed bare : much hilly fheep-walk, 

 and for a confiderable way, a full third of it 

 potatoes and corn : no fign of depopulation. 

 Juft before I got to the hills, a field of rag- 

 wort (fenefio jacobcea) buried the cows. The 

 firft view of Cattle Oliver interefting. After 

 rifmg a mountain fo high that no one could 

 think of any houfe, you come in view of a 

 vale, quite filled with fine woods, fields mar- 

 gined with trees, and hedge plantations climb- 

 ing 



