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which great work was done by the tenants, 

 and lime and fallon the means purfued. Thefe 

 ana other improvements, with the general 

 iiicreafe of profperity, has had fuch an effect 

 in employing the people, that Colonel Bur- 

 ton allured me, that 20 years ago, if he gave 

 notce at the rhafs houfes, that he wanted 

 labourers, in two days he could have 2 or 

 300 -, now it is not fo eafy to get 20, from the 

 quantity of regular employment being fq 

 much increafed. I obferved weavers looms in 

 moil of the cabbins, went into one, ?nd the 

 man informed me that he could weave a web 

 65 or 66 yards long, and 26 inches wide, at 

 8d. a yard price, in a week. 34 to 36 lb. 

 of yarn makes it, which coils 1 5 d. per lb. 

 he and his journeyman could earn 7 or 8 s. a 

 week by it. He paid 4I. 4 s. for the grazing 

 of a cow, a rood of potatoe garden, and the 

 cibbin. They were burning itraw, which I 

 forgot to remark I have found very common 

 where there is no turf: a moll pernicious 

 cuftora, it is in fad what 1 have often heard 

 literally reported, that they burn their dung^ 

 hills in Ireland. 



PaiTed through feveral farms much im- 

 proved, and found great attention given to 

 fences, the ditches very large, and the banks 

 well planted. 



Lord Boyne's eflate appears to be very rich, 

 and the tenants beyond the common run. 



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