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numbers of fwine, and many reared on the 

 mountains by the Tormentile root, which 

 abounds there, and from which they will come 

 down good pork. There are few fheep kept, 

 not fufficient to cloath the poor people, who, 

 however, work up what there is into frize. 

 Lambs fell from 2S. 2d. to 35. at four months 

 old. Three year old wethers, fat, from 55. 

 to 8s. weight about 9lb. a quarter, and are 

 admirable mutton. A ewe's flee.ce, one pound 

 and a half to two pound and a half. A lamb's, 

 one pound. A three year old wether, two 

 pound and a half. They have fome cows, 

 which are fattened in the vales ; and alfo fome 

 on the mountains, weighing 2 cwt. and two 

 and a quarter. Many goats are kept on the 

 mountains, efpecially by the poor people, to 

 whom they are a very great fupport ; for upon 

 the mountains the milk of a goat is equal to 

 that of a cow - t and fome of the kids are killed 

 for meat. 



Upon afking whether they ploughed with 

 horfes or oxen, I was told there was not a 

 plough in the whole pariih of Tooavifla, 

 which is 12 miles long by 7 broad. All the 

 tillage is by the Iriih loy ; ten men dig an 

 acre a day that has been ftirred before. It 

 will take forty men to put in an acre of pota- 

 toes in a day. Rents have fallen greatly in 

 mofl parts of Kerry. Tythes in 1770 and 

 in 1771 were taken in kind, owing to their 

 having been pu (bed up to, too great a height j 

 fmce 1771 they have been lowered -, the proc- 

 tor 



