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yet get great crops; but it is a very bad fort. 

 They are beginning to cultivate the moun- 

 tains ; the inclofures creep up the fides gra- 

 dually ; they pay 2s. to 4s. an acre, but im- 

 prove to be worth 8 or 10s. They do it 

 with lime-ftone gravel, or begin with pota- 

 toes, and dung; the gravel they carry 2 miles 

 to 3. Lime is a common manure j they lay 

 80 barrels an acre y it does bed on light land, 

 and gravel on ftony. They burn it themfelves. 

 One barrel of culm, at 2s. burns 5 barrels of 

 lime; 16 miles from the coal-pits. Quarrying 

 and burning 3d. a barrel. Drawing ftone to 

 the kiln id. or i±d. ditto. Lime-ftone gravel 

 is a very general manure, and the benefit 

 prodigious. They have fome they call lime- 

 ftone find, which is a fort of fand-ftone that 

 breaks very eafily. They lay 200 to 300 

 loads, 6 or 7 cwt. each, an acre. Four horfes 

 will draw 120 load a day, each load if barrel, 

 and the diftanee 40 perch: this is 180 barrels, 

 or 72obuihels, which is 24 loads, at 30 bufheis 

 each ; which, I believe, is more than four 

 horfes ufually perform in England, and is a 

 proof, that giving every horfe his own work 

 expedites it. Raifing and fcieening the fand 

 from large ftones, 1 id. a car load. It will Lift 

 in ftrong heart feveral years, and be per- 

 ceived 15. As to laying land to grafs, they 

 in general do it only by leaving the foil to 

 cover itfelf \\ ith the rubbiih that happens to 

 come. 



Grafs land for meadow is very valuable. 

 About the town of Kilkenny, 3I. to 5I. an 



acre : 



