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fame as at Nedeen, but pork not common. 

 Turkies, at pd. Salmon, at id. Trout and 

 perch plentiful. No pike in Kerry. Lamprey s 

 and eels, but. nobody eats the former. All the 

 poor people, both men and women, learn to 

 dance, and are exceedingly fond of the amufe- 

 ment. A ragged lad, without fhoes or ftockings, 

 has been iben in a mud barn, leading up a girl in 

 the fame trim for a minuet : the love of danc- 

 ing and mqfic are almoft univerfal amongft 

 them. 



The Rev. Mr. Bland, of Wood Park, near 

 Killarney, at whofe houfe I had the pleafure to 

 dine with Mr. Herbert, has improved a great 

 deal of boggy land; the tqrf fix inches deep, 

 burnt, but would not give afhes; under it a 

 brown gravel ; reclaimed it by marking ami 

 trenching in May, lime eighty barrels per acre; 

 fpread with green fern, then leave it until Spring 

 following, when dunged and planted, po- 

 tatoes ; the crop equal to the beft : dig the po- 

 tatoes, and plant a fecond crop, which will be 

 a greater produce, but the roots not fo large - t 

 took care in the digging them to bring up the 

 fod and manure; in the fpring dig again for 

 turnips, or oats, the turnips will be very good, 

 but has generally fown oats ; the crop tolera- 

 ble, great draw, but muft be iown very thin, 

 or they will lodge; leave the oat llubble and 

 it becomes in one year grafs to mow. Has 

 tried turnips, and found them to anfwer per- 

 fectly, in fattening fheep infinitely better than 

 any winter or fpring grafs. 



September 



