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and has been improving ever fince; it is now- 

 worth 303. an acre, and a very pleafing object 

 to the eye, efpecially fince Mr. Parker, junior, 

 has added to the finenefs of the verdure and 

 herbage by feeding it with many fheep. 



In the fame converfation I alfo learned a few 

 particulars of a bog of twelve acres part of one 

 of 150, improved by Mr. Minchin, near Ne- 

 nagh. The firft operation was to cut main 

 drains (ix feet deep, and crofs ones of 18 inches 

 or two feet, and as foon as it was a little firm, 

 covered it with lime-ftone gravel three inches 

 thick, before the bog would bear a car ; but did 

 it by beginning at the edge, and advancing on 

 the part gravelled. Part was tilled, and part 

 left for grafs without ploughing : the meadow 

 thus formed has been exceedingly fine. One- 

 uncommon circumftance was, his having paved 

 the bottom of the drains with gravel, in order 

 to prevent cattle from being bogged in them. 

 The expenfe of the whole improvement 8L an 

 acre. The profit immenfe. 



It is to Mr. Head's attention that I am in- 

 debted for the following particulars concern- 

 ing the barony of Owna and Arra. The foil 

 is a light gravelly loam, on a ilaty rock, which 

 is almoft general through the 'whole. The 

 rent on an average 153. for profitable land, 

 and is. for mountain ; and as there is about 

 half and half, the whole will be 8s. The rife 

 of rent, in twenty years is about double. Eflates 

 are generally large, fcarce any fo low as 5 or 



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