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the expence of above 500!. gave them leafes for 

 three lives. The benefit of them has been in- 

 troducing much tillage ; to the proportion of 

 their little farms, they till much more than the 

 Irifh. They drill their potatoes, and on ftub- 

 ble land worn out. Houfe their cattle, feeding 

 them with hay, and raifing thereby dung. 

 They are cleaner and neater, and live much 

 better: are better cloathed, and all of them 

 have neat little kitchen gardens. Many of them 

 labour for nobody but themfelves, and none 

 of them conftantly for others, being employed 

 principally on their own little farms. They 

 live partly on four crout. 



Caftle Oliver is a place almoft entirely of Mr. 

 Oliver's creation; from a houfe, furrounded 

 with cabbins and rubbifti, he has fixed it in a 

 fine lawn, furrounded by good wood. The park 

 he has very much improved on an excellent 

 plan; by means of feven feet hurdles, he fences 

 of! part of it that wants to be cleaned or im- 

 proved, thefe he cultivates, and leaves for grafs, 

 and then takes another fpot, which is by much 

 the befl way of doing it. In the park is a 

 glen, an Englifh mile long, winding in a plea- 

 ling manner, with much wood hanging on the 

 bank. Mr. Oliver has conducted a ftream 

 through this vale, and formed many little wa- 

 ter-falls in an exceeding good tafte, chiefly over- 

 hung with wood, but in fome places open with 

 feveral little rills, trickling over ftones down 

 the flopes. A path winds through a large 

 wood and along the brow of the glen; this 



path 



