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has alfo fattened hogs with it, but in no ufe 

 will it pay more than 6d. 



Nothing interefting from hence to Kilftine. 

 I faw fome very good crops of wheat, but the 

 country is bleak, and v*ants w:»od much. 

 Reached Gervas Parker Bufhe's, Efq; at that 

 place in the evening, who received me with 

 a politenefs equalled only by the value of his 

 intelligence. 



July ioth, accompanied Mr. Bufhe, in a 

 ride through the neighbourhood, to view the 

 country, which is a great corn one. Called 

 at feveral farms, and made enquiries into the 

 culture, &c. 



Viewed Mount Juliet, Lord Carrick's feat, 

 which is beautifully fituated on a fine declivity 

 on the banks of the Nore, commanding fome 

 extenfive plantations that fpread over the 

 hills, which rife in a various manner on the 

 other fide the river : a knole of lawn rifes 

 among them, with artificial ruins upon it, 

 but the fituation is not in unifon with the 

 idea of a ruin, very rarely placed to effect, 

 unlefs in retired and melancholy fpots. 



The river is a very fine one, and has a good 

 accompanyment of well grown wood. From 

 the cottage a more varied fcene is viewed, 

 chearful and pleafing ^ and from the tent, in 

 the farther plantation, a yet gayer one, which 

 looks down on feveral bends of the riven 



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