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ploughed, and of a countenance very different 

 from any lands in the neighbourhood. 



A year after the date of this journey, having 

 the pleafure of being again with this excellent 

 improver, I had a farther opportunity of be- 

 coming better acquainted with his manage- 

 ment. I had alfo gone over an improvement of 

 his at Duntreleague, near Mitchelftown, where 

 he advanced 300 acres of mountain from 50!. 

 pr 6ol. a year to 300!. a year, having hired it 

 pn a leafe for ever; he divided the whole in 

 fields of a proper fize by well-made ditches, 

 doubly planted with quick and rows of trees $ 

 the lands were improved with lime, laid down 

 to grafs, and let to tenants who pay their rents, 

 well ; but Mr. Oliver refiding at a diftance, the 

 trees were very much damaged and hurt by 

 the tenants cattle. To all appearance this im- 

 provement was as completely finifhed as any in 

 Ireland, and the great profit arifing from the 

 undertaking induced the archdeacon to at- 

 tempt his new one I mentioned above. In that 

 I found a very great progrefs made : befides an 

 excellent barn of ftone and flate, there was a 

 fteward's houfe, (tables, &c. and a good farm- 

 yard, walled in ; and it was with particular 

 pleafure I faw (it was in winter) a large num- 

 ber of cows and young cattle very well littered in 

 it with ftraw, and feeding on turnips a thick 

 layer of fea-fand having been fpread all over 

 it. The improvement and cultivation of the 

 farm went on apace, efpecially the liming ; the 

 kiln had been burning a twelvemonth, in which 

 time the fxpenfe had been as follows : 



364 barrels 



