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Mr. Clofe has had very fine turnips, with 

 which he fed fat wethers from autumn for the 

 fpring markets, and gained thereby i*d. a lb. 

 difference in price. 



Took a ride to fee the neighbouring country 

 by Killilean-hill, Fellows-hall, Woodpark- 

 lodge, Lifloony, Tinan, and Glaflough, which 

 indeed is a round that fhews the country to ad- 

 vantage ; it is a continued picture : ftop where 

 you pleafe, you are in the midfr. of a beauti- 

 ful landfcape. The hills are waving in every 

 variety of outline that can be imagined ; there 

 is a great plenty of wood, every tree of which 

 is feen to advantage from the inequality of 

 furface. It is a chearful, beautiful country, 

 and well worth a traveller's time to take this 

 ride, in order to fee it. Ireland, notwith- 

 ,ftanding her general nakednefs, contains fome 

 fcenes of beauty in which wood bears a confrV 

 derable fhare. 



Called in our ride at Mr. Lefly's at Gaf- 

 laugh, viewed fome of his great improvements : 

 he was abfent, but Mrs. Leily was fo obliging 

 as to walk through the woods with us. The 

 lake is a large one, containing 120 acres, and 

 the wood of 100 acres fpreads over a line bold 

 hill, and hangs down to the water in one 

 deep (hade, the effect remarkably beautiful : 

 additional plantations are made, and walks 

 cut through the whole. In the evening Mr. 

 Lefly came to Mr. Clofe's, and I then had 

 pleafure of learning that much of his domain, 



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