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He has been very attentive to bring his 

 farm into neat order refpecling fences, throw- 

 ing down and levelling old banks, making 

 new ditches, double ones fix feet wide and 

 five deep, w 7 ith a laige bank between for 

 planting, more effecluall- than ever I faw in 

 England : alfo in hollow drains his wet lands. 



Remarking in one of his fields under oats 

 one part, about ar acre incomparably beyond 

 the reft of the field, I enquired into the caufe 

 of it, and found it fown with an Englifh 

 oat, no other difference in the circumftances. 



His fyftem of fheep is to buy ewes, in Sep- 

 tember, at 14s. 6d. and to fatten both lamb 

 and ewe, felling the firfl at 9s. and the latter 

 at 1 8s. The wool is 4s. They lamb the be- 

 ginning of March. Obferving the legs being 

 long, his man affured me that the longer the 

 legs, the better the fheep fold in Smithfield. 

 A ridiculous prepoffeffion ! not peculiar to 

 Ireland j Wiltlhire has it. 



June 26th, breakfafted with Colonel Mar- 

 lay, at Cellbridge, found he had practifed 

 hufbandry with much fuccefs, and given great 

 attention to it from the peace of 1763, which 

 put a period to a gallant fcene of fervice in 

 Germany ; walked through his grounds, 

 which I found in general very well cultivat- 

 ed ; his fences excellent, his ditches 5 by 6, 

 and 7 by 6 ; the banks well made, and plant- 

 ed with quicks ; the borders dug away covered 



with 



