ioo WOODSTOCK. 



has this year a very fine crop of wheat fbwn 

 upon one earth on an old lay, and no damage 

 from the red-worm. In the fpring he con- 

 fines his cattle to the farm yard for making 

 dung, and mixes it in comports with fand and 

 lime. He has an ceconomical praclice which 

 deferves attention. It is the ftew hole in his 

 kitchen being a perpetual lime-kiln. It is a 

 fire kept night and day at lefsthan no expenfe, 

 for the lime more than pays the culm. It is 

 not at all unwholefome, and the fire for cu- 

 linary purpofes is excellent. 



July ii, left Kilfaine: Mr. Bufhe accom- 

 panied me to Woodftock, the feat of Sir W. 

 Fownes. From Thomaftown hither is the 

 fined ride I have yet had in Ireland. The 

 road leaving Thomaftown leads on the eaft 

 fide of the river, through fome beautiful copfe 

 woods, which before they were cut muft have, 

 had a moft noble effect, with the river Nore, 

 winding at the bottom, the country then opens 

 fomewhat, and you pafs moil: of the way for 

 6 or 7 miles to Innifteague, on a declivity 

 (helving down to the river, which takes a va- 

 ried winding courfe, fometimes lively, break- 

 ing over a rocky bottom, at others frill and 

 deep under the gloom of fome fine woods, 

 which hang down the fides of fteep hills. 

 Narrow flips of meadow of a beautiful ver- 

 dure in fome places form the fhore, and unite 

 with cultivated fields that fpread over the ad- 

 joining hills, reaching almoft the mountain 

 tops: thefe are large and bold, and give in 



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