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The laft improvement is a field of 1 1 acres, 

 which has been lately marled. 



Mr. Head has 400 fheep, and theyconfiftof 

 100 breeding ewes. 100 lambs. 84 hoggits. 

 70 three-year old wethers and culled ewes, 

 fat. 46 two year old wethers. He fells an- 

 nually 



Fifty fat wethers 57 o 



Fifty culled ewes, at i8s. 45 o o 



Four hundred fleeces, 133 ftone, at 1 8s. 119 14 o 



.221 14 O 



Mr. Head has a practice in his fences which 

 deferves univerfal imitation : it is planting 

 trees for gate-pofts. Stone piers are expen- 

 five and always tumbling down ; trees are 

 beautiful, and never want repairing. Within 

 15 years this gentleman has improved Derry 

 fo much, that thofe who had only feen it before, 

 would find it almoft a new creation. He has 

 built a handfome ftone- houfe, on the flope of 

 a hill riling from the Shannon, and backed by 

 fume fine woods, which unite with many old 

 hedges well planted to form a woodland fcene, 

 beautiful in the contraft to the bright expanfe 

 of the noble river below: the declivity, on 

 which thele woods are, finifhes in a moun- 

 tain, which rifes above the whole. The Shannon 

 gives a bend around the adjoining lands, fo as 

 to be feen from the houfe both to the weft and 

 north, the lawn falling gradually to a margin 

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