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in the cabbins are owing to the prolific quality 

 of this excellent ale of Wicklow. 



The wool of the country is all wrought up 

 by the inhabitants, fpun, combed, and wove 

 into flannel and frizes, and to fuch an extent, 

 that the mountain farmers pay half their rents 

 by this manufacture. They alfo buy much, 

 not having enough of their own : it is all 

 done by the fmallefi: farmers going through 

 the whole manufacture employing cotters in it. 

 By fpinning, a woman can earn 3d. a day. 

 Wool now 14s. to 17s. the ftone of i61b. 20 

 years ago us. no rot among the fheep. On 

 the mountains many goats are kept for the 

 milk, which is drank very much by people 

 from Dublin, who take lodgings for drinking 

 goats whey. Kids flcfh reckoned very line. 



They plough with bothhorfes and bullocks: 

 two horfes and two bullocks, and one bullock 

 and three horfes^ and do from one-half to 

 three-fourths of an acre a day. Stir 5 inches 

 deep. Very few or no oats given to horfes. 

 Chaff all thrown away. They work their 

 draught oxen in winter on ftraw. Hire of a 

 car, a horfe, and a driver, is. 6d. a day. With 

 4 cows, 2 horfes, a yearling, and 20 fheep, 

 General Cunninghame has had tenants pro- 

 fefTedly take 50 acres of land. 



Land fells at rack rent for 18 to 21 years 

 purchafe ; 5 or 6 years ago it was at 22. Rents 

 are fallen in the fame time 4s. in the pound. 

 Tythes are paid by compofition ; the crops 



are 



