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The manures are lime, at is. 4<I. a barrel 

 roach; if burnt by themfelves, 8d. to lod. lay 

 thirty to fifty barrels. Sea fand is ufed, fixty 

 to eighty bags, each five pecks, to the acre. 

 Corke dung cofts 6d. to is. a car load ; it is all 

 bought up very carefully; lol. a year is paid 

 for the cleaning of one ftreet ; this argues a 

 very fpirited hufbandry. 



Rode to the mouth of Corke harbour; the 

 grounds about it are all fine, bold, and varied, 

 but fo bare of trees, that there is not a fingle 

 view but what pains one in the want of wood. 

 Rents of the tract fouth of the river Carago- 

 line, from 53. to 305. average, IDS. Not one 

 man in five has a cow, but generally from one 

 to four acres, upon which they have potatoes, 

 and five or fix fheep, which they milk, and fpin 

 their wool. Labour jd. in winter, 6d. infum- 

 mer; many of them for three months in the 

 year live on potatoes and water, the reft of it 

 they have a good deal of fifh. But it is remark- 

 ed, at Kinfale, that when iprats are moft plen- 

 tiful, difeafes are moft common. Rent for a 

 mere cabbin, IDS. Much paring and burning; 

 paring twenty-eight men a day, fow wheat on 

 it and then potatoes ; get great crops. The foil 

 a fharp ftoney land; no iime-ftone fouth of 

 the above river. Manure for potatoes, with 

 fea weed for 263. which gives good crops, but 

 lafts only one year. Sea fand much uied, no 

 (hells in it. Farms rife to two or three hun- 

 dred acres, but are hired in partnership. 



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