its BARGIE AND FORTH. 



ploughing grafs for corn, they leave one-third 

 of every ridge unploughed in the middle, but 

 covered up with the furrows, in order for til- 

 ling the year following, and think they get 

 the beft crops there. Execrable ! 



Land fells from 22 to 25 years purchafe ; 

 nor have rents fallen at all, rather the con- 

 trary. County cefs 8d. an acre. Tythes ei- 

 ther gathered or appraifed every year. Leafes 

 generally three lives, or 31 years. Carry 

 their corn to Wexford. The people increafe 

 prodigioufly. Rent of a cabbin and an acre 

 3I. generally have a cow and pigs, and plenty 

 of poultry. Religion generally Catholic. 

 Many lads go to Newfoundland in May, and 

 come home in October, and bring from 15I. 

 to 24I. pay 3I. paffage out, and il. 10s. home. 

 Poors' firing fod, furze, and fern, coals very 

 fcarce. Building a cottage 5I. to 7I. to a farm 

 of 50 acres 150I. 



The people are uncommonly induftrious, 

 and a moit. quiet race — in 15 or 20 years 

 there is no fuch thing as a robbery. The lit- 

 tle farmers live very comfortably and happily, 

 and many of them worth feveral hundred 

 pounds. They are exceedingly attentive in 

 getting mould out of the ditches and banks, 

 to mix a little dung with it, and fpread it on 

 their land. 



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