BALLYCANVAN. 



object fo commanding, that the general want 

 of wood is almoft forotten. 





Two years after this account was written I 

 again vifited this enchanting hill, and walked 

 to it, day after day, from Ballycanvan, and 

 with increafing pleafure. Mr. Bolton, jun. 

 has fince I was there before, inclofed forty 

 acres on the top and fteep Hope 'to the water, 

 and began to plant them. This will be a 

 prodigious addition ; for the Hope forming 

 the bold fhore for a confiderable fpace, and 

 having projections from which the wood will 

 all be leen in the gentle hollows of the hill, 

 the effect: will be amazingly fine. Walks 

 r.nd a riding are tracing out, which will com- 

 mand frefh beauties at every ftep j the fpots 

 from which a variety of beautiful views are 

 feen are numerous. All the way from Bally- 

 canvan to Faithleg, the whole to the amount 

 of 1200 acres, is the property of Mr. Bolton. 



Farms about Ballycanvan, Waterford, &c. 

 are generally fmall, from twenty and thirty 

 to five hundred acres, generally about two 

 hundred and fifty, all above two hundred 

 acres are in general dairies ; fome of the dai- 

 ry ones rife very high. The foil is a reddifh 

 ftony, or flaty gravel, dry, except low lands, 

 which are clay or turf. Rents vary much 

 about the town very high, from 5!. 55. to 9!. 

 but at the diftance of a few miles towards 

 PafTage, &c. they are from 205. to 408. and 

 fome higher, but the country in general does 

 i not 



