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pretty river winding through the vale, beau- 

 tiful in itfelf, but trebly fo on information, 

 that before he fixed there, it was all a wild 

 wafte. Rents in Ravenfdaie 10s. mountain 

 land as. 6d. to 5s. Alfo large tracls rented 

 by villages, the cotters dividing it among 

 themfelves, and making the mountain common 

 for their cattle. 



Breakfafted at Newry, the Globe, another 



s;ood inn. This town appears exceedingly 



§ourifhing, and is very well built ; yet 40 

 years as;o, I was told there were nothing but 

 mud cabbins in it: this great rife has been 

 much owing to the canal to Loch-Neagh. I 

 croiTed it twice — it is indeed a noble work. I 

 was amazed to fee fhips of 1 50 tons and more 

 lying in it, like barges in an Englifh canal. 

 Here is a confiderable trade. 



Take the road to Market-hill : the town 

 parks about Newry let up to 2I. and 3I. an 

 acre, which is here Englifh meafure. They 

 low oats chiefly as I advanced, with a little 

 barley — no fallows, and but little clover. 

 Within 4 miles of Market-hill, thecourfe: 



1. Oats. 2. Oats. 3. Oats. 4. Oats. 5. 

 Oats, and then leave it to the rubbifh, which 

 comes for 3 or 4 years : fome potatoes, and 

 after it flax. I am now got into the linen 

 country, and the worft hufbandry I have met 

 with ; my Lord Chief Baron is right. Rents 

 los. to 13s. the Englifh acre j all the farms 



are 



