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off. Land is fo valuable, that all along as I 

 came from Bruff, their cabbins are generally 

 in the road ditch, and numbers of them with- 

 out the leaft garden ; the potatoe land being 

 affigned them upon the farm where it fuits the 

 mailer beft. The price they pay is very great, 

 from 4!. to 5!. an acre, with a eabbin j and for 

 the grafs of a cow, 405. to 453. They are, if 

 any thing, worfe off than they were twenty 

 years ago. A eabbin, an acre of land, at 405. 

 and the grafs of two cows, the recompenfe of 

 the year's labour : but are paid in different 

 places by an acre of grafs for potatoes at 5!. 

 Thofe who do not get milk to their potatoes, 

 eat muftard with them, railing the feed for the 

 purpofe. The population of the country in- 

 creafes exceedingly, but moft in the higher 

 lands ; new cabbins are building every where. 

 The tillage in thefe rich lands confifts in, 



i. Potatoes. 2. Potatoes. 3. Barley. 4. 

 Wheat. 5. Oats. 6. Oats, 



i. Potatoes. 2. Potatoes, (on fpots 4. or 

 I acre flax after the 2d Potatoes.) 3. Wheat. 

 4. Barley. 5. Oats. 6. Oats. 7. Oats. 8. 

 Oats. 9. Lay it out. 



Mr. Oliver has known 150 Briftol barrels, 

 each four bufhels heaped of potatoes, which 

 make fix bufhels, or 900 from an acre. The 

 weight, ftrike meafure, 15 ftone. The com- 

 mon crop, 1 50 heaped barrels, at 43. average 

 price. Opinions differ much, whether the fe- 



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