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Particulars of a farm : 



70 acres. 16 cows, 4 to each partner. 20 

 horfes, each 5. So fheep. 60 fwine. 

 Stock worth 300I. 4 families. 



And this farm by old accounts has had 00 

 crops of corn without a fallow or grafs, in 

 fucceflion, but they manure with fea-weed 

 and fea-fand every year. They are always on 

 the watch for fea-weed ; and when the tide 

 comes in, if it is in the middle of the night, 

 they go out with their cars, and get all they 

 can. Some of the fields are fo covered with 

 great ftone rocks, that one would think it 

 impoflible to plough them, but they manage 

 it by attention. 



They all fpeak a broken Saxon language, 

 and not one in an hundred knows any thing 

 of Irifh. They are evidently a diftinct peo- 

 ple ; and I could not but remark, their fea- 

 tures and caft of countenance varied very 

 much from the common native Irifh. The 

 girls and women are handfomer, having much 

 better features and complexions. Indeed the 

 women, among the lower claffes in general in 

 Ireland, are as ugly as the women of fafhion 

 are handfome. Their induftry, as I have 

 mentioned in feveral particulars, is fuperior 

 to their neighbours j and their better living 

 and habitations are alfo diftinctions not to be 

 forgotten. The poor have all barley-bread 

 and pork, herrings, &c. and potatoes. On 

 the coaft a confiderable fifhery of herrings : 



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