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verj the mountains to the fouth come to 

 the water's edge, with but few variations, the 

 principal of which is Ardee, a farm of Lord 

 Shelburne's : to the north of the river, the 

 flat land is one-half to three quarters of a mile 

 Abroad. The mountains to the fouth reach to 

 Bear-haven, and thofe to the north to Dingle- 

 bay ; the foil is extremely various j to the 

 fouth of the river all are fand ftones, and the 

 hills ioam, ftone, gravel, and bog. To the 

 north there is a flip of lime-ftone land, from 

 Kilgarvon to Cabbina-cuih, that is fix miles 

 eaft of Nedeen, and three to the weft, but is 

 not more than a quarter of a mile broad, the 

 reft including the mountains all fand ftone, 

 As to its rents, it is very difficult to tell what 

 they are ; for land is let by the plough land 

 and gineve, 12 gineves to the plough land j 

 but the latter denomination is not of any par- 

 ticular quantity : for no 2 plough lands are 

 the fame. The fize of farms is various, from 

 40 acres to 1000, lefs quantities go with cab- 

 bins, and fome farms are taken by labourers 

 in partnermip. Their tillage confifts of po T 

 tatoes meafured by the peck of 8Alb. manure 

 for them with fea weed, three boat loads to an 

 acre, each at i6s. %d. the poor people' ufe no- 

 thing elfe : but thofe who can afford it, lay 

 dung with it. Thefe potatoes are the rirft 

 crop. Thirty pecks plant an acre, and it 

 takes from twenty to thirty men to fet an acre 

 in a day. 



j. Potatoes, 



