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fold within 20 years. All the hogs in the 

 country are fattened on them half boiled. 



In July, Auguft, and September, they have 

 great numbers of Connaught labourers; they 

 are called Jpalpeens : fpal, in Irifh, is a fcythe, 

 and peen a penny; that is, a mower for a 

 penny a day, but that is 80 years ago. 



Lord Bedive's father was one of the greateft 

 improvers I have heard of. He bought io,oco 

 acres of bog and rough land in the county of 

 Cavan, much at the rent of only 2od. an acre : 

 he drained and improved the bog, though a 

 red one, divided it, and brought it to be'fuch 

 good land, that it is now 15s. an acre; part 

 of it was dry rocky land, which he divided by- 

 walls. 



July 3d, took my leave of Lord Bedive, 

 and went to Drueftown, the feat of Barry 

 Barry, Efq; but as I was not fortunate enough 

 to find him at home, I could only obferve in 

 general, that he had a large lawn very well 

 laid down to grafs, and had made a very pretty 

 lake with a fhrubbery on the banks of it. 

 About this neighbourhood all the good land 

 is applied to grazing, and lets from 2$ to 35s. 

 an acre, the reft 20s. But towards Fore I 

 palled by much that was greatly inferior, for 

 when laid down, (that is left to itfelf) no 

 white clover, or very little came, and it feem- 

 ed quite uninclofed ; yet this I found was at 

 14 or 15s. I obferved here that the cottars 

 were not fo well cloathed as hitherto. 



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