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Land fells at twenty years purchafe : there has 

 been a fall of rents from 1772, to the Ame- 

 rican war, but fmce that time they have been 

 riling. The religion all Roman catholic. 



Much of the labour is done by fervants, 

 hired into the houfe of little farmers that keep 

 dairies, &c. Much alfo by cottars, who have 

 a cabbin and an acre and a half of potatoe gar- 

 den, which are valued at three guineas ; they 

 have alfo two cows, at 505. a cow. Three- 

 fourths of an acre under potatoes every year, 

 and the reft oats and flax j they get about 120 

 barrels an acre, which crop, with the oats, 

 feed them the year through , they are much 

 more eaten than they were 20 years ago ; two 

 barrels will laft a family a week as they arc 

 ufually confumed. They all keep a pig, a dog, 

 two cats, and fome poultry j their circumftan- 

 ces are better than they were twenty years ago ; 

 their pig they fell, but they eat fome poultry, 

 particularly geefe. Some of them buy turf 

 for fuel, which cofts them fifteen fhillings : 

 but many depend on breaking and ftealing 

 hedge-wood 5 they are much given to pil- 

 fering. 



Cottar s account. 



Cabbin and i^ acre - 383 



Grafs of two Cows - - 50 



Turf o 15 



Carried over .9 3 3 

 Tythe 



