i 4 4 MANUFACTURES, 



confequently be attended with all the effects which would 

 have flowed from a fimilar number the paft bounty would 

 have improved. I have now done with this meafure ; my 

 Ehglifh reader will, I hope, pardon fo long a detail, which I 

 fhould not have gone into had I found the facts known in 

 Ireland, or any juft conclufions drawn from ideal ones ; but 

 in the variety of converfations I have had in that kingdom 

 with all defer iptions of men, I found not one who was ac- 

 quainted with the facts upon which the merit of the meafure 

 could alone be decided. It is for their ufe that I have col- 

 lected them from very voluminous manufcripts. 



Another meafure relative to corn, which is in execution in 

 Ireland, is a parliamentary bounty on corn preserved on 

 ftands, that is (lacked on (lone pillars capped, to prevent the 

 depredations of rats and mice. I have been a/lured that very 

 great abufes are found in the claims ; if thefe are obviated, 

 the meafure feems not objectable in a country where little is 

 dons without fome public encouragement. The following 

 are the payments in confequence of this bounty. 



In the Year 1 766 - 891 



1767 - 891 



1768 - 3442 



1769 - 3442 

 . 1770 - 4266 



1771 - 4266 



In the Year 1772 - 5487 



'773 - 5487 



1774 - 6565 



1775 - 6565 



1776 - 6866 



1777 - 6866* 



It would be a proper condition to annex to this bounty, 

 that it be given only to corn preferved as required, and 

 threfhed on boarded floors ; the famples of Irifh wheat are 

 exceedingly damaged by clay floors ; an Englifh miller knows 

 the moment he takes a fample in his hand if it came off a 

 clay floor, and it is a deduftion in the value. The floors 

 fhould be of deal plank two inches thick, and laid on joifts 

 two or three feet from the ground, for a free current of air 

 to prcfcrve them from rotting. 



SECTION XIX, 

 Manufactures. 



*Hp HE only mamifa&ure of confiderable importance in Ire- 

 JL land is that of linen, which the Irilh have for near a cen- 

 tury confidered as the great ftaple of the kingdom. The hi- 

 ftory of it in its earlier periods is very little known ; a com- 

 mittee of the houfe of commons, of which Sir Lucius O'Bricn. 



was 



* Ttf reafon cf the fitnn lelng tl:e fame for tw> years tl-rcugh- 

 out, is their btin? returned every JeceriaJFtar ta parllamert. 



