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ing drained for that purpofe by deep cuts on 

 either fide. I fhould apprehend this bog to be 

 among the moil improvable in the country. 



Slept at Ballyroan, at an inn kept by three 

 animals, who call themfelves women ; met with 

 more impertinence than at any other in Ireland. 

 It is an execrable hole. In three or four miles 

 pafs Sir John Parnel's prettily (ituated in a 

 neatly drefTed lawn ; with much wood about 

 it, and a lake quite alive with wild fowl. 



Pafs Monftereven, and crofs direclly a large 

 bog, drained and partly improved ; but all of 

 it bearing grafs, and feems in a flate that might 

 cafily be reduced to rich meadow, with only a 

 drefling of lime. Here I got again into the road 

 J had travelled before. ' 



I muft in general remark, that from near 

 Urlingford to Dawfon Court, near Monfter- 

 even, which is completely acrofs the Queen's 

 County, is a line of above thirty Englifh. miles, 

 and is for that extent by much the moft im- 

 proved of any I have feen in Ireland. It is 

 generally well planted, has many woods, and 

 not confifting of patches of plantation juft by 

 gentlemen's houles, but fpreading over the 

 whole face of the country, fo as to give it the 

 richnefs of an Englifh woodland fcene. What 

 a country would Ireland be had the inhabitants 

 of the reft of it improved the whole like this. 



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