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of wood as to form a very pleafing fcenery ; 

 the river takes a very rapid rocky courfe, around 

 a projecting rock, on which a gentleman has 

 built a fummer-houfe, and formed a terrace : it 

 is a ftriking fpot. To Limerick. Laid at Ben- 

 nis's, the firft inn we had flept in from Dublin. 

 God preferve us this journey from another ! 



The 8th, leaving that place, I took the 

 road through Palace to Cullen. The firft fix 

 or feven miles from Limerick has a great deal 

 of corn, which fliews that tillage is gaining 

 even upon bullocks themfelves. I obferved 

 with much pleafu re, that all the cottars had 

 their little gardens furrounded with banks well 

 planted with otters. To the Rev. Mr. Lloyd's, 

 at Caftle Lloyd, near Cullen, a gentleman who I 

 found as able and willing as he had been repre- 

 fented, to give me the intelligence I wifhed rela- 

 tive to the grazing grounds around him. The 

 following particulars, which I owe to him, con- 

 cern more immediately the barony of Clanwil- 

 liam in Tipperary ; the fame in Limerick, Small 

 County, and the part of Coonagh next Clan- 

 william. In thefe parts the foil and manage- 

 ment are much the fame : that of Oonabeg 

 nearly, but not quite equal. 



The foil is a loam of a yellowifh brown, 

 friable, but putrid and mixed with a fmall 

 quantity of grit ftones upon a lime-ftone rock, 

 at the depth of two, three, and four feet ; 

 much of it is very dry, but the richeft has 

 what is here called a tender moift Jkin> which 

 i vields 



