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Mr. Oliver has pra6Kfed hufbandry on a pret- 

 ty extenfive fcale. A confiderable part of his 

 land is improved mountain, which he grubbed 

 and cleared of fpontaneous rubbifh, and ma- 

 nured with lime-ftone fand j and then culti- 

 vated fome for corn, and fome for turnips : 

 where the land is boggy, he burns, in order 

 to get rid of that foil which he confiders as 

 worth but little. Whatever he fows, the land 

 runs at once immediately to thick fine grafs, 

 even on the mountain top ; fo that a ftubble 

 will, in the firft year, yield a great crop of 

 hay. A ftrong proof how adapted this country 

 is to paflurage. In the breed of cattle he has 

 been very attentive, purchafing bulls and cows, 

 at the expence of twenty guineas each, of the 

 long-horned Lancafhire breed, and from them 

 has bred others, I faw two exceeding well- 

 made bulls of a year old of his breeding, which 

 would have made a confiderable figure in Lei- 

 cefterfhire. Turnips he has cultivated for ma- 

 ny years, applying them chiefly to feeding deer, 

 but^ he has fattened fome fheep on them with 

 good fuccefs. Hollow draining he has practiced 

 upon an extenfive fcale, and laid a large tract 

 of wet land dry by it. 



Mr. Oliver planted a colony of Palatines 15 

 years ago, from about Rathkeal, 66 families 

 in one year, which made 700 proteftants, on 

 his own eftate. Fixed them upon fpots, of 

 from thirteen to thirty acres each, charging 

 thCm only two thirds of the rent, which he 

 could get of others ; built houfes for them at 



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