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lutelj neceflkry to enlarge our enquiry, that we may examine, 

 as well as our materials will permk, whether any national 

 lofs, as well as profit, has refulted from converting fo much 

 rich pafture land into tillage ; and in order to do this, it will 

 be necefTary to lay before the reader the exports of the pro- 

 duce of pafturage from Ireland, during thefe two periods of 

 feven years each, which ferve us for a comparifon. 



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The prices of all thefe commodities muft be afcertained, in 

 order to difcover the increafe or decreafe of value. 



The cuftom-houfe price of beef is il. 6s. 8d. per barrel ; 

 but 1 find that the average price at Waterford, from 1764 to 

 1776, was 1 6s. per cwt. or il. 123. the barrel. The cuftom- 

 houfe rate of butter is 1. per cwt. but by the fame authority, 

 I find the real price on the average of the laft fourteen years 

 to be zl. 55. 6d. Candles at the cuftom-houfe il. 155. per 

 cwt. the real price zl. IDS. Tallow at the cuftom-houfe 2!. 

 the true price zl. 45. 6d. 



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