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of Small County, which is rich ; Coonagh has 

 much ; Coftilea a great deal, and much moun- 

 tain; Clanwilliam, a good fhare. The rich 

 land reaches from Charleville, at the foot of the 

 mountains, to Tipperary, by Kilfenning, a 

 line of twenty-five miles, and acrofs from Ard- 

 patric to within four miles of Limerick, 16 

 miles. Bruff, Kilmallock, and Hofpital have 

 very good land about them ; the quantity in 

 the whole conjectured to be 100,000 acres. It 

 is in general under bullocks, but there is fome 

 tillage fcattered about, to the amount probably 

 of a fifteenth of the whole; the rents are from. 

 255. to 40$. but average 305. an acre. 



The county of Limerick, befides the rich 

 grazing, has a light lime-ft one -land for fheep 

 and cows, at 155. to 205. There are alfo yel- 

 low clays, from IDS. to 2os. alfo middling land 

 of furze and fern, from IDS. 6d. to il. is. 

 Some mountain is. likewife fifteen miles of 

 corcafles on the Shannon, two to three miles 

 broad. Average of the whole county, aos. 

 The county of Tipperary, i8s. - 



As to the foil I am able to fpeak of it parti- 

 cularly, for Mr. Oliver was fo kind as to ride 

 through a great variety of it, a man with a 

 fpade following to dig ; the fined foil in the 

 country is upon the roots of mountains ; it is 

 a rich, mellow, crumbling, putrid, fandy loam, 

 eighteen inches to three feet deep, the colour 

 a reddifh brown. It is dry found land, and 

 would do for turneps exceedingly well, for 



carrots, 



