7 o BELVIDERE. 



July 5th, left Mullingar, which is a dirty 

 ugly town, and taking the road to Tulla- 

 more, Hopped at Lord Belvidere's, with which 

 place I was as much flruck as with any I had 

 ever feen. The houfe is perched on the 

 crown of a very beautiful little hill, half fur- 

 rounded with others, variegated and melting 

 into one another. It is one of the molt lin- 

 gular places that is any where to be feen, and 

 Spreading to the eye a beautiful lawn of un- 

 dulating ground margined with wood. Single 

 trees are Scattered in fome places, and clumps 

 in others ; the general effecT: fo pleafing, that 

 were there nothing further, the place would 

 be beautiful, but the canvafs is admirably 

 filled. Lake Ennel, many miles in length, 

 and two or three broad, flows beneath the 

 windows. It is fpotted with iflets, a pro- 

 montory of rock fringed with trees fhoots 

 into it, and the whole is bounded by diftant 

 hills. Greater and more magnificent fcenes 

 are often met with, but no where a more 

 beautiful or a more lingular one. 



From Mullingar to Tullefpace, I found 

 rents in general at 20s. an acre, with much 

 re-let at 30s. yet all the crops, except bere, 

 were very bad, and full of w 7 eeds. About the 

 latter named place a the farms are generally 

 from 100 to 300 acres, and their courfe, 1. 

 Fallow. 2. Bere. 3. Oats. 4. Oats. 5. Oats. 

 Great quantities of potatoes all the way, crops 

 from 40 to 80 barrels. 



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