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Cattle of all forts a very inferior object here. 

 This place is in Fingal, which is a territory 

 from near Dublin, extending along the coaft, 

 inhabited by a people they call Fingalians -, 

 an English colony planted here many years 

 ago, fpeaking nearly the fame language as 

 the barony of Forth, but more intermixed 

 with Irifh in language, &c. from vicinity to 

 the capital* 



A horfe and car and driver is. two cars to a 

 driver. The rife of labour great, 20 years, 

 from 4d. to 6d. An extraordinary circum- 

 ftance is, that Ireland has been very profpe- 

 rous on comparifon with former times, and yet 

 intereft of money now 6 per cent, and 20 years 

 ago 41 and 5. Land fells at under 20 years 

 purchafe, fallen from 24 in 4 or 5 years, ow- 

 ing partly to the rents being run up too high. 



Baron Hamilton has been a confiderable 

 improver; he took in near Hampton 150 

 acres mountain land, covered with fcutch 

 grafs (triticum repem) furz, (ukx suropoeus) 

 and a little heath (erica vulgaris} ; flubbed it 

 up, ploughed it 4 times, limed it 140 to 150 

 barrels each acre. Sowed rye, fold it on the 

 land 7I. 1 os. an acre. For two fucceflive years 

 let it at 4I. ics. an acre for two crops of oats, 

 which yielded from 16 to 20 barrels an acre ; 

 then two years more at 3I. 1 ;s. and 3I. 10s. 

 the crop 14 barrels. Fallowed it to deitroy 

 fcutch grafs for maflin, and then a crop of 

 fpring corn with grafs feed. This is the courfe 

 in which tfee rough ground has been generally 



improved- 



