REVENUE. 167 



Bay yarn. A woman, on an average, fpins three fkains a 

 Jay, which weigh a quarter of a pound, the value fpun is 

 from ten pence to a (hilling, medium ten pence three far- 

 things. 



d. 



Combing it not quite i 



Spinning, zf 



Value of the wool, 7- 



10* 



The balls are a pound and an half each of twelve fkains, 

 the woman fpins a ball in four days, being paid ten pence ; 

 in Leinfter it is ten pence halfpenny, and in Munfter it is 

 nine pence ; average nine pence three farthings. Combing 

 a ball is about three pence, which with fpinning nine pence 

 three farthings, makes twelve pence three farthings labour on 

 a ball ; and the price of a ball, both wool and labour, in the 

 year 1778, was three (hillings and fixpence. In a war the 

 price of wool generally falls in Ireland. The lafl French war 

 did not fink prices in Ireland, but the Spanifli one did. The 

 filk manufa&ure of Ireland has been already difcufled in Sec- 

 tion 1 6, and is a fabric that merits neither the encouragement 

 of the natives, nor the attention of others. 



SECTION XX. 



Revenue Taxes . 



THE rife, progrefs, and prefent ftate of the revenue of 

 Ireland, is very little underflood in England, though an 

 objecT: of confiderable importance to that kingdom. The va- 

 riations of this revenue are ufeful marks, among many others, 

 of the profperity or declenfion of the ifland, and every thing 

 which enables us to judge of the real ftate of a country with 

 which we are fo intimately connected, well deferves our at- 

 tention. 



The public revenue in that kingdom (lands upon a very 

 different footing from curs in England, owing to the opera- 

 tions of the revolution relative to this obieft not having ex- 

 tend^ 



