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but not increafed. A good deal of rape feed 

 fhipped off for Holland, and one hundred tons 

 of rape cakes to Wells and Lynn in Norfolk, 

 at 405. a ton. Till this laft year at 255. a ton. 

 Many thoufand loads of dung thrown into the 

 Shannon, both in the tov/n and many places 

 along the river. Within five or fix years they 

 have taken fome away, but not much. Town 

 parks let at 4!, 45. to 5!. for ten miles every 

 way the rent is 255, to 30$. Much flour goes 

 to Dublin from this county and Tipperary on 

 the land-carriage bounty. There is a great 

 increafe of tillage : thrice the corn grown that 

 there was formerly : There has been much 

 pafturage broken up on this account; fome 

 bullock land, and fome fhcep land. Great 

 quantities of butter made within a few miles 

 of Limerick. Scarce any fpinning here, or in 

 the neighbourhood, either of wool or flax. 

 The poor live upon potatoes and milk, gene- 

 rally fpeaking, with fome oatmeal. They do 

 not all keep cows j thofe who do not, buy, and 

 pay id. for three quarts of fkim milk. The 

 rent of their cabbins and one-fourth of arx 

 acre 155. to 2os. build them themfelves. They 

 are in a better fituation in moil refpefts than 

 twenty years ago. Pigs are much increafed, 

 chiefly or entirely bred by the cottars, and the 

 high price has been of prodigious confequence 

 to them. They are much better clad than they 

 were. Date their increafe of this from the 

 open cattle trade to England. Population has 

 much increafed within twenty years, and the 

 cjty alfo ? but was more populous fix years ago 



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