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land ; but upon receiving many complaints at 

 it, he fold them lime at gd. a barrel, which coft 

 him is, in order to make up the imaginary 

 lofc. 



I had the pleafure of meeting, at Lord Ty- 

 rone's, William Shanly, Efq; of Willyfield, in 

 Lcitrim, who informed me that he had twelve 

 hundred per acre from a bad red bog, ftone 

 of potatoes four feet deep, drained to the clay 

 at bottom i lime-ftone fand at 3], labour, be- 

 fides horfes ; diinged it a common covering, 

 and immediately planted the potatoes, dug 

 them, and fowed barley, 1 5 barrels an acre. 

 Barley again 1 2 barrels ; barley again 8 barrels, 

 grew too rank, laid with grafs feeds, could let 

 at 405. an acre: anfwers fo well, that he would 

 have done any quantity of it ; did 20 acres. 

 He planted with a plough 29! flone of pota- 

 toes in rows, four feet afunder > the produce 

 was 1,440 (tone, the quantity of land about 

 three rood. In the county Leitrim, four-fifths 

 of mountain, at 2d. or not fo much} the re- 

 maining fifth, 6s. the mountains in Leitrim all 

 wet, a boggy furface. 



Curraghmoor is one of the finefr. places in 

 Ireland, or indeed that I have any where feen. 

 The houfe, which is large, is fituated upon a 

 riling ground, in a vale furrounded by very 

 bold hills, which rife in a variety of forms, 

 and offer to the eye, in riding through the 

 grounds, very noble and finking fcenes. Thefe 

 hills are exceedingly varied, fo that the detour 



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