Paid in fcven years, 85,038 Paid in feven years, 329,413 

 Which is, per ann. 12,148 Which is, per ann. 47,059 



If therefore the account was to be clofed here, it appears 

 that forty-feven thoufand pounds per annum, have been giveu 

 of the public money for a gain in the export and import ac- 

 count of corn of twenty thoufand pounds a year. Surely 

 this is paying very dear for it ! but the account does not 

 end here. 



From this table the reader finds, that the bounty has been 

 continually riling, until it has exceeded fixty thoufand pounds 

 a year. It alfo appears, that the encreafe of tillage has been 

 chiefly in the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary, Carlow, 

 Meath, Kildare, King's, Wexford, Queen's, and Limerick, as 

 will appear by contralling the firft and the lait years of thofc 

 counties. 



T T 7 



2,079 20,816 



191 9,862 



Counties, 

 Kilkenny, 

 Tipperary, ' 

 Carlow, 

 Meath, 

 Kildare, 

 King's 

 Wexford, 

 Queen's, 

 Rofcommon, 



160 

 506 



748 

 447 



4>594 

 3'45 

 3,161 



4.95* 

 3>!6i 

 1,740 



And Limerick arofe from nothing at all to 2773!. in the 

 year 1776 ; from hence one fad clearly appears, that the in- 

 creafe of tillage has by no means been in the poor counties, 

 by breaking up uncultivated lands ; on the contrary, it has 

 been entirely in the richeft counties in the kingdom, which 

 confirms the intelligence I received on the journey, that h 

 was good Iheep land that had principally been tilled. The 

 bounty to Tipperary, Carlow, and Rofcommon, once the 

 greateft fheep counties in Ireland, was infignificant at thu 

 beginning of the meafure, but has at lad become very great. 

 This circumftance, fo dfential ia the fubjec't, renders it abfo- 



lutely 



