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Proceeded to Wood ford, Robert Fitzgerald's, 

 Efq; pafTing Liftowel bridge, the vale leading 

 to it is very fine, the river is broad, the lands 

 high, and one fide a very extenfive hanging 

 wood, opening on thofe of Woodford in a 

 pleafmg ftile. 



Woodford is an agreeable fcene ; clofe to the 

 houfe is a fine winding river under a bank of 

 thick wood, with the view of an old caftle 

 hanging over it. Mr. Fitzgerald is making a 

 considerable progrefs in rural improvements ; 

 he is taking in mountain ground, fencing and 

 draining very completely, and introducing a 

 new hulbandry. He keeps 30 pigs, which flock 

 he feeds on potatoes, and has built a piggery 

 for them. Turnips he cultivates for fheep, 

 and finds them to anfwer perfectly. Not being 

 able to get men who underftand hoeing, he 

 thins them by hand. He has five acres of po- 

 tatoes put in drills with the plough, and de- 

 figns ploughing them out : they look perfectly 

 well, and promife to be as good a crop as any 

 in the trench way. The common courfe in 

 this neighbourhood is, 



i. Potatoes, a. Potatoes. 3. Wheat. 4. Oats. 

 5. Lay it out. 



Farms are very much in partnerfhip, and 

 improvements exceedingly backward on that 

 account. The poor live on potatoes and milk 

 all the year round, but are rather better off 

 than they were twenty years ago. The labour 



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