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fourteen fpits deep were cleared, and a foun- 

 dation of rammed clay laid : this coft loool. it 

 has, however, flood well fmce. 



Lime Mr. Lloyd tried in a very fatisfaclory 

 experiment ; he broke up one of the rich hills 

 near Caftle Lloyd, and limed half a field ; af- 

 terwards upon laying the whole down, the 

 part limed has continued of a much deeper 

 green and more luxuriant herbage than the 

 other half. 



October loth, left Caftle Lloyd, and took 

 the road by Galbally to Mitchei's Town, 

 through a country part of it a rich grazing 

 tract ; but from near Galbally, to the Galty 

 mountains, there are large fpaces of flat lands, 

 covered with heath and furze, that are exceed- 

 ingly improvable, yet feem as neglected as if 

 nothing could be made of them. The road 

 leads immediately at the northern foot of the 

 Galties, which form the moft formidable and 

 romantic boundary imaginable ; the fides are 

 almoft perpendicular, and reach a height, 

 which piercing the clouds, feem formed rather 

 for the boundaries of two conflicting empires, 

 than the property of private perfons. The 

 variety of the fcenery exhibited by thefe moun- 

 tains is great ; the road after pafling fome miles 

 parallel with them, turns over a hill, a conti- 

 nuation of their chain, and commands an ob- 

 lique view of their fouthern fide, which has 

 much more variety than the northern ; it looks 

 down at the fame time upon a long plain, 



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