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Brought over .9 n 6 

 303 days fpinning between the wife and daugh- 

 ter at 3d. 3 15 3 



Expences 

 Remains for whiflcy, &c. &c. - . i 10 9 



Potatoes are much more the food than for- 

 merly ; there are full twice as many planted. 

 The cottars in their gardens follow the courfe 

 of crops firft mentioned. They are all very 

 much addicted to pilfering : their general cha- 

 racter idlenefs and dirtinefs, and want of at- 

 tention. They are remarkable for a moft in- 

 violable honour in never betraying each other, 

 or even any body elfe, which refults from a ge- 

 neral contempt of order and law, and a want 

 of fear of every thing but a cudgel, the reader 

 will remember that maiming cattle, pulling 

 down, and fcattering flacks, and burning the 

 houfes of thofe who take lands over their heads, 

 are very well known. I am regiftering infor- 

 mation, and that not from one or two perfons, 

 but feveral. 



The pafturage fyftem is to buy in yearling 

 calves, called bull chins, at from 355. to 555. 

 (but twenty years ago, 22S. yd. each), which 

 they generally fell at Banagher fair, when 

 three years and an half, at 5!. los. to 61. buy- 

 ing and felling regularly every year. They al- 

 fo buy cows in May, and fell them fat in au- 

 tumn, 



