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amounted in the firft to 3278!. f, and in the latter to 4973!. * 

 the aft lafted only thofe four years. It was an experiment 

 \vhich furely ought to have been continued; for if corn is to 

 be forced to Dublin, this moil certainly is the only rational 

 \vay of doing it. 



By the following table the amount of this coafting trade 

 will be feen, with and without that bounty. 



Corn and Flour brought coaftways to Dublin from 

 . 1758 to 1777. , 



f June i, 1768. "}th George III. chap. 24. 



^d. per C'wt. corn of Irijb growth by ivater coaftiuays to 

 Dublin, fouthward between M r icklo<w and the Tufcar ; north, 

 between D right da or Carrickfergus- 



^d. per Civt. if fouthiuard of^fTufcar, or north of Carrick- 

 ferguf. 



q.d. per C'wt. foutb'ward of Cooley point, to Newry, Belfaft, 

 ir Londonderry. Continued to 2^tb "June, 1771. 



MS. account of public premiums, communicated by tie Right 

 Hon. "John Forjler, member for the county of Louth. 



* MS. csmmwiicatcd ly Ri:':. Nevi 1 /, Efa mwltcrfsr Wnfora, 



