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I was allured, that in thefe if* 

 lands, they have known two crops of barley 

 gained from the fame land in one year, and 

 the fecond better than the firft. They fowed 

 the tirft of April, and reaped the middle of 

 May, and immediately fowed a fecond, which 

 they reaped the end of Auguft. This was done! 

 by John Macdonald, of Maharaghbeg. 



Arriving at Ardfert, Lord Croiby, whofe 

 politenefs 1 have every reafon to remember, was 

 ib obliging as to carry me by one of the fineft 

 ftrands I ever rode upon, to view the mouth 

 of the Shannon at Bailengary, the fite of an 

 old fort : it is a vaft rock feparated from the 

 country by a chafm of a prodigious depth, 

 through which the waves drive. The rocks of 

 the coaft here are in the boldeft ftile, and hol- 

 lowed by the furious Atlantic waves into ca- 

 verns in which they roar. It was a dead calm, 

 yet the f well was fo heavy, that the great waves 

 rolled in and broke upon the rocks with fiich 

 violence as to raifean immenfe foam, and give 

 one an idea of what a (torm would be, but fan- 

 cy rarely falls fliort in her pictures. The 

 view of the Shannon is exceedingly noble ; it 

 is tight miles over, the mouth formed by two 

 headlands of very high and bold clifts, and the 

 reach of the river in view very extenfive : it is 

 an immenfe fcenery. Perhaps the nobleft 

 mouth of a river in Europe. 



CrofTed in the way a large bog, highly im- 

 provable, faw fome little fpots taken in with 

 .heaps of fea fand for carrying it on. 



Lord 



