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Got to Lord Courtown's, who with an at- 

 tention highly flattering, took every means to 

 have me well informed. His feat at Cour- 

 town is a very agreeable place, and in fome 

 refpecis a very lingular one ; for the houfe is 

 within 600 yards of the fea, and yet it is al- 

 mofl buried in fine woods, which from their 

 growth and foliage, fhew no averfion to their 

 neighbour, who is fo often pernicious to all 

 their brethren. His views of the fea are fine, 

 every where broken by wood, or hilly varied 

 ground. All his environs coniifl of undulat- 

 ing lands, which give a pleating variety to the 

 fcene : a river enters his garden, and purfu- 

 ing for fome diftance a fequeftered courfe, 

 fhaded on one fide by a rocky bank well 

 wooded, and on the other by lofty trees, with 

 a very agreeable walk under them, pours it- 

 felf into the fea at a fmall diftance from the 

 houfe. 



Lord Courtown is a very good farmer. The 

 firft field of turnips I [aw in Ireland was here, 

 and he was thinning and weeding them with 

 boys, in order to hoe them with the more ef- 

 fect, the land in order, well dunged, and the 

 plants forward and flouriiTiing. He generally 

 has 7 or 8 acres, feeds his cattle with them in 

 a farm-yard, well littered with fern and ftraw, 

 and fows barley after, getting very fine crops. 

 His fandy lands by the coaft he marles richly, 

 and with fuch effect that his crops are very 

 great. The fineft wheat I have feen yet in 

 Ireland was on this fand. Some of his Lord- 

 fliip's fields are wet from a ftratum of clay ; 



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