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of the country is generally done for land in the 

 manner I have fo often defcribed, rated at an 

 exorbitant price, 4d. winter; 5d. fummer ; 

 fome 6d. round. Three- fourths of Kerry 

 mountain and bog, at is. 6d. the reftat 155. 



In 1765, Mr. Fitzgerald was travelling from 

 Constantinople to Warfaw, and a waggon with 

 his baggage, heavily laden, overfet ; the coun- 

 try people harnefled to buffaloes by the horns, 

 in order to draw it over, which they did with 

 eafe. In fome very inftructive converfation I 

 had with this gentleman, on the fubjecl: 

 of his travels, this circumflance particularly 

 ftruck me. 



October 4th, from Woodford to Tarbat, the 

 feat of Edward Lefle, Efq ; through a country, 

 rather dreary, till it came upon Tarbat,* which 

 is fo much the contrary, that it appeared to 

 the higheft advantage; the houfe is on the 

 edge of a beautiful lawn, with a thick margin 

 of full-grown wood, hanging on a fleep bank 

 to the Shannon, fo that the river is feen from 

 the houfe over the tops of this wood, which 

 being of a broken irregular outline, has an 

 effect very ftriking and uncommon ; the river 

 is two or three miles broad here, and the op- 

 pofite coaft forms a promontory, which has 

 from Tarbat exactly the appearance of a large 

 iilancl. To the eaft, the river fwells into a tri- 

 angular lake, with a reach opening at the dif- 

 tant corner of it to Limerick: the union of 

 wood, water, and lawn, forms upon the whole 

 I 2 a very 



