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wild fowl 3 near it is a very beautiful fpot, 

 which commands a view of both woods and 

 water, a fituation either for a houfe or a tem- 

 ple. Mr. Dawfon is adding to the plantations, 

 an employment of all others the moft merito- 

 rious in Ireland. Another work fcarcely lefs 

 fo, was the ere&ing a large handfome inn, 

 wherein the fame gentleman intends eftablifh- 

 ing a perfon who mall be able to fupply tra- 

 vellers, poft, with either chaifes or horfes. 



From Shaen Caftle to Glofter, in the King's 

 County, the feat of John Lloyd, Efq; member 

 for that county, to whofe attention I owe the 

 following particulars, in which he took every 

 means to have me well and accurately inform- 

 ed. But firft let me obferve, that I was much 

 pleafed to remark, all the way from Naas quite 

 to RofTcrea, that the country was amongft the 

 fined I had feen in Ireland, and confequently 

 that 1 was fortunate in having an opportunity 

 of feeing it after the involuntary omifllon of 

 laft year. The cabbins, though many of them 

 are very bad, yet are better than in fome other 

 counties, and chimnies generally a part of them. 

 The people too have no very miferable appear- 

 ance ; the breed of cattle and (Keep good, and 

 the hogs much the befl I have any where feen 

 in Ireland. Turf is every where at hand, and 

 in plenty ; yet are the bogs not fo general as 

 to affecl: the beauty of the country, which is 

 very great in many tradls, with a fcat- 

 ttring of wood, which makes it pleafing. 



Shaen. 



