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Mr. William Atkinfon, of Mount Wilkin- 

 fon, near Ballycanvan, feems to be very at- 

 tentive to the orchard hufbandry $ from two 

 acres he had twenty-one hogfheads of cyder, 

 and the fame year reaped twenty barrels of 

 wheat under the trees, a produce little fhort of 

 50!. or 25!. an acre j three and an half barrels 

 of his aples (each 6 bufhels) made a hogfhead of 

 cyder. A common practice here in planting 

 orchards, is to fet cuttings, three or four feet 

 long, half way in the ground, of the cackagee, 

 jergonelle, or any fet that grows rough and 

 knotty in the wood ; they call them pitchers, 

 they rarely fail, and yield well and fopn. 



Mr. Bolton carried me to the houfes of 

 fome fifhermen,on the harbour, one of 'whom 

 }iad planted around his cabbin for fhelter, 

 three years ago, fome willow cuttings, the 

 growth of which amazed me - 3 I meafured 

 Them 21 feet high, and not crooked or bend- 

 ing like common forts, but ft rait as a fir, I 

 took half a dozen cuttings with me to Eng- 

 land to compare it with the forts common 

 with us. 



Oftober iQth, the wind being fair, took 

 my leave of Mr. Bolton, and went back to 

 the (hip ; met -with" a frefh fcene of provoking 

 delays, fo that it was the next morning, Octo- 

 ber aoth, at eight o'clock, before we failed, 

 and then it was not wind, but a cargo of paf- 

 fengers that fpread our fails. v Twelve or 

 fourteen hours are not an uncommon paflage, 



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