90 KILLARNEY. 



rent free for twenty-one years ; alfo to form 

 twenty-acred allotments for the parks to the 

 town of Nedeen, with defign to encourage 

 fettlements in it, for which 330 acres are 

 kept in hand. The fituation is advantageous, 

 and {hips of IQO tons can come up to it, with 

 a very good landing-place. He has alfo fixed 

 fome Englifh farmers. 



Relative to the improvement of the wild 

 regions within fight of the houfe I was in, I 



afked, Suppofe Jive acres ofthofe mountains to be 

 cleared of Jlones^ a ftone cabbin built., at j\. ex- 

 pence, and a wall raifed round the whole , and to be 

 let at a reafonable rent, 'would a tenant be found'? 

 " That moment" Suppofe fix of them, or 

 twelve ? " Tou would have tenants for all, if 

 there were an hundred" 



In the pariih of Tooavifter, they have a 

 way of taking land by the ounce, in the arable 

 part, which joins the fea. An ounce is the 

 fixteenth of a gineve, and is fufficient for a 

 potatoe garden, and they pay a guinea for it. 



The climate in thefe parts of Kerry is fo 

 mild, that potatoes are left by the poor peo- 

 ple in the ground the whole winter through ; 

 but laft winter almoit ruined them, their crop 

 being deftroyed. 



September 26th, left Nedeen, and rifing the 

 mountainous region, towards Killarney, came 

 to a tract of mountain-bog, one of the moft 



improvable 



