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lected, efpecially withindoors : for the climate 

 being very rainy, travellers wait with great 

 impatience in a dirty common inn, which 

 they would not do if they were in the midft 

 of fach accommodations as they meet with at 

 an Englith fpaw. But above all, the prices 

 or" every thing, from a room and a dinner, to 

 a barge and a band of mufic, to be reafon- 

 able, and hung up in every part of the houfe : 

 the refort of Grangers to Kiilarney would 

 then be much increafed, and their (lay would 

 be greatly prolonged; they would not view it 

 poft-hafle, and fly away the firft moment to 

 avoid dirt and impofition. A man, with a 

 good capital and fome ingenuity, would, I 

 think, make a fortune by fixing here upon 

 fuch principles. 



In the line of agriculture, Mr. Herbert has 

 carried on fome important experiments, which 

 muft deferve attention. Of 360 acres he has 

 reclaimed 140, which, before he began, were 

 covered with great rocks, ftones, brambles, 

 (rubus frujliccfus) and furze, (eulex europaus.) 

 His firft operation was to cut down and grub 

 up the fpontaneous growth that was the 

 ftrongeft : but the reft he fet fire to, in order 

 to plough them up with bullocks. Then he 

 attacked the ftones, fome of which were five or 

 fix feet fquare ; the large ones were burft in 

 pieces by kindling fires upon them, being the 

 brown land- (tone. But this operation will 

 have no effe6t on lime-ftone j others not fo 

 large were drawn off the land by bullocks, to 



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