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Hire of four cars, one man and a boy 4s. a. 

 day: 23 miles from Dublin it takes the whole 

 week to go twice. The price to go there 10s. 

 a week, 4s. of it expenfes on the road. The 

 load fix cwt. each car. But Mr. Jebb has fent 

 i8cwt. to Dublin with one horfe, and not an 

 extraordinary one, 15 or 16 cwt. often. 



In the improvements making about the caf- 

 tle, it was necefTary to move a large hill of 

 lime ftone, and as the readieft way, Colonel 

 Burton is burning it to lime. The kiln, like 

 mod I have feen in Ireland, is a very good 

 one. It is in the fhape of an egg, 19 feet 

 deep, and 9 diameter in the fwell - } when new 

 it burnt 400 barrels in a week, each three 

 bufhels ; but as the lining is worn, it is now 

 from 350 to 400. A ton of culm, which cofts 

 at Drogheda 13s. and 2s. freight from thence, 

 burns 50 barrels of lime. Quarrying and 

 burning the ftone is 1 ^d. a barrel, expenfes in 

 all 5 ^d. and it fells at the kiln for yd. The 

 ftone is laid in layers eight or nine inches 

 thick, and is always kept fupplving at top 

 and emptying at bottom. The kiln coft 35I. 

 building, and it employs three hands. 



Lord Conyn gharri's feat, Slaine Cafilc, on 

 the Eoyne, is one of the raoft beautiful places 

 I have feen • the grounds are very bold and 

 various, riling around the caftle in noble hills 

 or beautiful inequalities of furface, with an 

 outline of flouriihing plantations. Under 

 the caftle flows the Boyne, in a reach broken 



